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dev build 200311241900 I'm running under a 2.6GHz machine with tons of RAM and Netbeans is extremely smooth, except the form editor. Once 10-20 items have been added to the Inspector view clicking anywhere is extremely slow. It takes up 2 seconds on average for the system to respond to any of my clicks instead the inspector or properties windows. I even enabled USE DEFERRED CODE GENERATION in the hopes it would speed things up and it did not. Expected response time: maximum of 100ms even when inspector contains 100 components. Because the performance is so poor I am setting the priority to P2.
What exactly is slow (not responding) after clicking in the Inspector? Painting the node selected, or displaying the properties of the node, or painting the selection box in the designer?
Displaying the properties of the new node after it is selected in the Inspector is slow.
I've created a form having about 100 components (labels, buttons, textfields in a simple JFrame with FlowLayout). But the response does not seem to be bad - it's about 300ms for me (I have PIII 733MHz). I'm attaching the form. Can you confirm it is slow for you in this form? Thanks
Created attachment 12390 [details] sample form file
Created attachment 12391 [details] sample java file
Tomas, You are right. When using the form editor right after Netbeans is started up, it is very fast regardless of how many components are being displayed. What is happening, though, is that after using it for an hour or so it begins to crawl. I will spend another few days trying to find a quicker way to reproduce the problem.
Will reopen if I find a better way to reproduce.