(1.5.0.17) There is a considerable lag after typing the first letter in the search field of the Help window

[Matej Junk]

Hi,

 

There is a considerable lag after typing the first letter in the search field of the Help window.

 

Cheers.

[Chris_K]

Hi Matej

 

After typing the first letter the help brings up a list of suggestions which would explain the lag. However this seems like it might be dependant on the system as the lag is very minimal/hardly noticeable on my system

[Matej Junk]

It takes about 2 seconds after I type a word, that it appears in full after the first letter on my system:

 

Intel i7 - 4700 HQ - 2.4GHz

Memory: 12 GB

Graphics:NVIDIA GTX 765 M

SSD: 250 GB

HD: 750 GB

WIN 10 Anniversary Update

 

Is this as expected? I remeber it to be much faster in previous betas.

 

Cheers.

[Alfred]

I don't remember a noticeable lag in previous builds. It's certainly noticeable now.

[Sean P]

Hi Matej,

Do you have a Graphics Tablet plugged into your machine? Another user has reported slowdown when searching the help with a graphics tablet. I've been able to reproduce this searching for 'Rectangle' and found it to be much more than 2 seconds.

[Matej Junk]

No, I don't have a Graphics Tablet  plugged in, just a wireless mouse. And some times it does take much more than two seconds as you describe.

[Jonopen]

I've Wacom graphics tablet and get a delay of around two seconds. I can type the whole word 'rectangle', then look up at the screen (I'm a hunt and peck typist!) just as it's displaying the results.

 

[Comment relating to help]

Something that initially kept catching me out was the triangle bullet icons (twisties) are not clickable. Obviously they wouldn't look so nice when underlined, but to me seems slightly Windows non-standard.

[Sean P]

[Comment relating to help]

Something that initially kept catching me out was the triangle bullet icons (twisties) are not clickable. Obviously they wouldn't look so nice when underlined, but to me seems slightly Windows non-standard.

 

Hi Jonopen,

 

This is something we're aware of and with the developers to fix! :)

[Alfred]

Hi Matej,

 

Do you have a Graphics Tablet plugged into your machine? Another user has reported slowdown when searching the help with a graphics tablet. I've been able to reproduce this searching for 'Rectangle' and found it to be much more than 2 seconds.

 

I'm not Matej (obviously!) but I'm using a laptop with only its built-in touchpad. I don't have my graphics tablet plugged in, or my trackball or any other external pointing device, and I don't even own a wireless mouse.

 

The attached animated GIF shows what happened when I typed 'rectangle' into the box. I wasn't typing particularly fast, but the gap between typing the 'r' and the 'e' was about a third of the time that the 'e' took to appear on the screen, and the entire word was typed at a similar speed with no pauses.

[Sean P]

I'm not Matej (obviously!) but I'm using a laptop with only its built-in touchpad. I don't have my graphics tablet plugged in, or my trackball or any other external pointing device, and I don't even own a wireless mouse.

 

The attached animated GIF shows what happened when I typed 'rectangle' into the box. I wasn't typing particularly fast, but the gap between typing the 'r' and the 'e' was about a third of the time that the 'e' took to appear on the screen, and the entire word was typed at a similar speed with no pauses.

Interestingly that is quite similar to what I was expieriencing.. I do wonder if it's related to pointer devices. I'll try it on several of the laptops we've got here! :)