[Idle-dev] Dragging Window Not Smooth

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Wed Aug 15 17:58:25 CEST 2012


On 8/15/2012 11:06 AM, Weeble wrote:
> I hadn't noticed it before, but I started Idle 3.2 on Windows 7 and
> observed it does not move smoothly. Other editors (e.g. I tried GVIM
> and Notepad) move smoothly when dragged by their title bar. I'd guess
> they're hitting at least 30fps, probably quite a bit better. Idle has
> quite jerky movement. I'd guess maybe 10fps. So far as I can tell,
> this affects all Idle windows, but *only* while the shell window is
> open. If you have open only a document window, it's smooth and snappy
> like any other editor.

Confirmed with 3.3.0b1, Win7, 64 bit, fast, year-old machine and 
graphics, including change in edit window behavior with and without 
shell window. I have not seen anything like this with any other program. 
If I move window quickly, it seems to jump about 1/4 inch at a time.


-- 
Terry Jan Reedy



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