Re: Editing of textboxes is very very slow in pyabiword on xo / write activity

Hi Sumit,
             I'll investigate the slowness today. I'm certain you will
have to move to abiword 2.7.9 or later to fix it. (2.7.9 will be
released this weekend)

Cheers

Martin

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 5:16 AM, sumit singh<sumit.coder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Martin,
>
> First of all, I would like to thank you for all the help you have
> provided in the development of the NewsPaper Activity ( the name we
> have thought for our version ) , so that we are close to an alpha
> release in the near future. Thanx to Tomeu and Marc as well for their
> help. And surely to the abiword community for their valuable
> suggestions.
>
> Currently, I am dealing with a problem regarding the performance of
> write activity to deal with text boxes. As, I have to create
> templates, I have to deal with textboxes in the activity, however
> editing the data in the text boxes on the write actiivty / pyabiword
> on xo , is really very slow, I mean it takes a lot of time to write
> even simple words or make simple changes.
>
> I am not sure whether this problem is due to the way pyabiword deals
> with textboxes in 2.6 version or due to the limited hardware resources
> available on the xo. If this problem is due to version 2.6 , then has
> it been improved in 2.7 version ? I am also attaching 2 of the sample
> templates which I am using in my own activity, kindly open them with
> the write activity in order to have a look at the issues I am talking
> about.
>
> I also wanted to add more pages to the documents but adding more
> pages, makes the activity so slow that it hangs after a while. I also
> tried it with the normal .odt versions of these templates, but they
> are equally slow.
>
>  Kindly give your suggestions about where exactly is the problem and
> how can it be improved? Kindly let me know if I am wrong in any of the
> ways I am dealing with the  text boxes.
>
> Regards,
> VIJIT aka sumit
>
Received on Fri Aug 14 01:22:55 2009