| Eclipse scrolling on Mac [message #756115] |
Thu, 10 November 2011 20:16  |
 justin
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Registered: September 2011 |
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When using Eclipse 3.7 (and earlier versions) on OS X 10.7, the scrolling of the main editor is quite slow in comparison to on Windows or Linux. I tried looking at bug reports, but the ones I found are a couple years old. If I hold the up/down key on a source file, the scrolling will continue for a few seconds after I release the key.
This behavior is not exclusive to the java editor, as it also happens when viewing source with the plain text editor in eclipse.
Most suggestions I have read when searching for this have indicated increasing the memory size, but this does not seem to help at all. The only thing that appears to help is reducing the size of the editor; if the visible area is small, the scrolling is very smooth. It gets progressively slower when the editor area is increased.
I should also note that I am seeing Eclipse use 60-70% of CPU (from activity monitor) when I am scrolling on OS X, which seems absurdly high. This is on a 2011 Core i7 2.2 Ghz.
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| Re: Eclipse scrolling on Mac [message #758350 is a reply to message #756115] |
Tue, 22 November 2011 16:04  |
Eric Rizzo
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On 11/10/11 8:16 PM, justin wrote:
> When using Eclipse 3.7 (and earlier versions) on OS X 10.7, the
> scrolling of the main editor is quite slow in comparison to on Windows
> or Linux. I tried looking at bug reports, but the ones I found are a
> couple years old. If I hold the up/down key on a source file, the
> scrolling will continue for a few seconds after I release the key.
>
> This behavior is not exclusive to the java editor, as it also happens
> when viewing source with the plain text editor in eclipse.
>
> Most suggestions I have read when searching for this have indicated
> increasing the memory size, but this does not seem to help at all. The
> only thing that appears to help is reducing the size of the editor; if
> the visible area is small, the scrolling is very smooth. It gets
> progressively slower when the editor area is increased.
I've been using Eclipse on OS X on a daily basis for about 3 years now
and have never seen such behavior. I know that many of the Eclipse
developers also use Macs, and if this were a common problem it would
have been well documented (and fixed) by now.
Sorry, I don't have any other advice besides asking in the SWT forum group.
Eric
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| Re: Eclipse scrolling on Mac [message #758387 is a reply to message #756115] |
Tue, 22 November 2011 20:30 |
Peter Misak
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Registered: November 2011 |
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I am using Eclipse 3.7 on OS X 10.7 (Lion) and I am experiencing exactly the same behavior.
I have made a switch to Mac 3 months ago and I have never used Eclipse on Mac before, but this unresponsiveness is quite annoying. It is much less responsive than Eclipse on Windows / Linux. I find it also much less responsive than other Java IDEs on Mac.
Also the progress bars seem to be very slow and actually sometimes slower than the processing itself.
For example: When I'm opening a bigger XSD file, a progress bar appears that shows the loading of referenced definitions. This loading is quite fast when I hide the progress bar by another window (so it is not repainted) -- but it can take up to 10x more time when it is fully shown.
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| Re: Eclipse scrolling on Mac [message #842453 is a reply to message #756115] |
Thu, 12 April 2012 06:00 |
Mark Thompson
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Registered: April 2012 |
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I too am having bad scrolling behaviour on OSX Lion, I've upgraded from Leopard to Snow Leopard (which was also fine) and then to Lion and am now seeing very slow responsiveness to scrolling in Indigo Eclipse.
OSX 10.7.3
Eclipse Indigo 3.7.2
Can this be addressed quickly as this is slowing down daily workflow by quite an amount! (you don't really realise how slow scrolling can affect how you work until it's too late!)
Does it have anything to do with the new lion scrollbars?
I did notice a little bit of a performance increase when change the option to show scrollbars in system preferences to 'Always'
System Prefs > General > Show scroll Bars [tick Always]
This seems to be effective but now everything everywhere has scroll bars! (not ideal)
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