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[swt.widgets.Text] No live update and very slow on Mac OS X [message #1600493]

Wed, 04 February 2015 04:22

Eclipse User

I created a SWT application which uses a swt.widgets.Text widget as logging window, similar to the console window of eclipse.

The following code is used to append text to the widget:

    public void logAppend(String s)
    {
        if (!logTextField.isDisposed())
        {
                int index = logTextField.getTopIndex();
                logTextField.append(s);

                if (logAutoScrollToEnd)
                    logTextField.setTopIndex(logTextField.getLineCount() - 1);
                else
                    logTextField.setTopIndex(index);
        }
    }

The application is running fine on Windows but I see two problems on Mac OSX:

1. No live update
If a task is adding several hundreds of new lines to the widget, on Mac OS X the widget does not update its content during the task.
The content is only updated when the task has finished.
On Windows I see the messages scrolling upwards as expected.

2. The setTopIndex method is slow as hell
A task which adds approximately 600 new lines to the log window takes some seconds on Windows but minutes on Mac OS X.
Obviously the setTopIndex method is causing the problem. When I don't call this method the speed is comparable to Windows.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Thanks and best regards,
Wolfgang

(SWT Version 4427)

Re: [swt.widgets.Text] No live update and very slow on Mac OS X [message #1612881 is a reply to message #1600493]

Thu, 12 February 2015 04:05

Eclipse User

I switched now to the StyledText widget and which does not have these problems.

Re: [swt.widgets.Text] No live update and very slow on Mac OS X [message #1648656 is a reply to message #1600493]

Tue, 03 March 2015 20:36

Eclipse User

I am debugging a similar performance problem, on windows.

the Text window has hundreds of thousands of 'lines'
(think a hour long build output log)..

as the number of lines increases the eclispe ui gets slower and slower and slower,
til it appears hung.

the buffers from the job log are queued up in a background thread, and the UI thread gets run every 10 seconds to push the buffers into the text control..

every update cycle does
(control is enabled, it has auto refresh on I expect)
append() (1 or more times)
append()
append() (one buffer is 37meg)
then
setVisible(true);
setTopIndex(getLineCount()-1);
getParent().layout();

if I comment out the setTopIndex/getTopIndex, no change..
so my theory is that the append is doing a lot of extra stuff under the covers.

is there something I can do to turn off updates while the data gets loaded in?
the control says it holds 2gig. (getTextLimit), and I am nowhere near close (<100meg).

Maybe setRedraw(false)?

the control is created thru FormToolkit.createText().

[Updated on: Wed, 04 March 2015 07:21] by Moderator

Re: [swt.widgets.Text] No live update and very slow on Mac OS X [message #1651814 is a reply to message #1648656]

Thu, 05 March 2015 09:28

Eclipse User

looks like this is really a design fault on my part..

replaced

fText.getParent().layout();

with

Rectangle f = fText.getClientArea();
fText.redraw(f.x, f.y, f.width, f.height, true);
fText.update();

to just redraw the visible client area

so far performance seems consistent and good.

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