(scream) any word on patches?

[kiwiora]

I am recreating a solution in FM7, and I have to say I am about to pull my hair out. My biggest issue is it has turned my once super-duper PC, into the equivalent of an old 256 (or worse.. the old Apple II i used to have). WHAT THE - nothing drives me more mad than the slowness that has occurred with the shift to FM7. When dragging objects in layout mode i have to wait forever for the item to catch up with the mouse.

lets not even start on the font rendering.

Has anyone heard anything of a patch coming out anytime soon? I've just convinced them in my last project to convert from access to filemaker... Doesn't look too good!!!

[Wim Decorte]

Not having the same issue here (FM7 and FMD7 on XP - 2 different machines) do you experience it on all your machines?

I'm converting a couple of clients to 7 but we haven't gone live yet. And they know the issues involved with getting going with a very new product...

HTH

Wim

[BruceJ]

I just got word today that the patch is "soon to be released". Patience grasshopper.

Coming soon

[kiwiora]

wooo hoooo BruceJ

Wim - I am running FM7D & FM7 on XP - same computer throughout whole firm. I probably kinda, well maybe over exaggerated the slowness (re my old 256 etc) but seriously, working in layout mode lags dreadfully. Perhaps the whole turning fonts into graphics issue (i.e current fonts issue) might fix it? (fingers crossed).

I also basically decided to go with FM7 because at the end of the day it's such a huge difference to FM6 that upgrading down the future by jumping a version would probably be a bigger nightmare!

[stanley]

Kiwiora:

I think you've hit the nail on the head there. No matter what the surface may look like, FMP 7 is a vast improvement over our recent past, and we've all got to grasp the nettle and move forward, trusting FMI to actually fix the weird behavior of 7.0 (and not behave like Microsoft, and say it's all about the new "features.")

I agree with you, and think that FMP 7 is prohibitively slow on slightly-out-of-date machines, and I'm not happy about it. The real problem, as a developer, is that I cannot offer new features to clients unless they fork out money to improve their machines. And then I'm the bad guy.

Well, I can always blame Bill Gates.

-Stanley

[dbruggmann]

Found on the Filemaker Inc. site today:

[rockman]

I found a screen redraw bug in v7.2 for XP. If the window is MAXIMIZED, then sceeen redraw in layout mode is slow. If the window is NOT MAXIMIZED, the redraw is lightening fast. See if this helps.

HTH,

Jeff

[Alan H]

I am interested that some are experiencing FM7 as much slower than FM6, while others are not.

Just a question for those experiencing it--do you have a large number of graphic elements (pasted/imported) on your layout? That has been a big problem for me. But layouts with just fields on them respond, for me at least, no more slowly than in FM6.

[Bush]

Interesting.

I'm running 7.2 on a Win2k laptop. The font-fuzziness is gone. I'm delighted. And I don't have any speed problems, either.

Now, not all my scripts are functioning correctly (why do I have to go WINDOW > SHOW WINDOW > oh there it is... to have the new layout appear?), but the physical elements seem to be ok.

[rockman]

The slow screen redraw bug is very consistant and very noticable on my laptop that uses v7.2 trial and Windows XP Home.

The slow screen redraw bug DOES NOT occur on my work desktop running v7.2 trial and Windows XP Home.

It looks like it may be a graphics card dependant bug?

Anybody with any ideas?

(And no the slow redraw bug is not dependent on graphic images. It will occur on a layout with just one field object on the entire layout).

Jeff

[Wim Decorte]

On the machines that are affected, scale back the hardware acceleration and see if it makes a difference.

But before doing that, check to see if there are any new video drivers available for the machine.

Let us know what happens.

[kiwiora]

hey rockman

You're right - I restored my window and then just resized it so it appeared as maximised and voila - moving objects around the screen is alot faster.

Cheers

(now for all the other bugs ....)

[DanBrill]

See the rest of that thread for some results I found yesterday...

Dan

http://www.fmforums.com/threads/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=solutions&Number=110165&Forum=All_Forums&Words=&Searchpage=0&Limit=25&Main=108422&Search=true&where=bodysub&Name=8153&daterange=1&newerval=&newertype=&olderval=&oldertype=&bodyprev=#Post110165