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Toggle grid values becomes increasingly slow

Fredda
Fredda 6 months ago

I have the following line in the env file for toggling grid values:

funckey g 'settoggle gridvalue 1.0 0.5 0.1 0.05 0.01 0.005 0.001; replay set-grid $gridvalue;echo grid = $gridvalue'

This works fine when Allegro is just started, but becomes increasingly slow the longer Allegro has been running. It eventually gets to a point where it takes several seconds to toggle one value, which is really frustrating. Is there a way to solve this?

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  • JuanCR
    0 JuanCR 5 months ago

    Hey Fredda! what's the contents of the script "set-grid.scr"?

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  • Fredda
    0 Fredda 5 months ago in reply to JuanCR

    scriptmode +invisible
    setwindow pcb
    define grid
    setwindow form.grid
    FORM grid non_etch non_etch_x_grids $gridvalue
    FORM grid non_etch non_etch_y_grids $gridvalue
    FORM grid all_etch all_etch_x_grids $gridvalue
    FORM grid all_etch all_etch_y_grids $gridvalue
    FORM grid done

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  • excellon1
    0 excellon1 5 months ago

    HI Fredda, I had seen this happen before in particular if the database was large on v17.2. not too sure what ver your running there.

    What worked for me was to reload the .env file.

    Here is a macro you can add to your .env file to make reloading the .env file easier that uses the  home key on your keyboard - this saves a restart of allegro.

    funckey Home 'source -q $localenv/env; echo ENV file reloaded'

    Best regards.

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  • Fredda
    0 Fredda 5 months ago in reply to excellon1

    Thanks for answering. I've tried to reload the env file, but unfortunately that doesn't seem to help. I'm running 23.1-2023 S004 [4/25/2024] Windows SPB 64-bit Edition.

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