editing times

[philkryder]

I have an ATMN
with about 400 lines.

even very simple changes to cause AA to wait and paint the screen for about 30 seconds before I can edit another statement.

This is with AA v6 Premier.

Is this typical?

What can I do to get better response time.

I'm running on a twin engine Pentium 4 XP with 2 gig of memory.

thanks
Phil

[philkryder]

any ideas on how to help this?
or
can anyone say if this is "typical?"

[forumsupport]

Hello Phil,

When we edit and save any command in editor Automation Anywhere repaints the entire screen, refreshing the editor and reloads the images associated with each command in the task so it requires some seconds.

To reduce the time its always the good practice to clear the windows temp folder (C:\Documents and Settings\...\Local Settings\Temp) and AA temp folder (C:\...\My Documents\Automation Anywhere\Temp).

Hope that helps.

[philkryder]

is there any way to use more real memory rather that TEMP DISK?

I have a 4 gig windows 7 machine that has lots of free memory.

Is there any way to turn off UNDO?

I cant live with this kind of SLOOOOOWNESSS - going back to 5.5

[Mihir Shukla]

Phil,

We will get this verified on our end and if it need a fix, we will include it in the next version.

[philkryder]

thanks any intermediate help would be appreciated.

do you use
WINDOWS/TEMP
or
LOCAL SETTINGS/TEMP


Do you tell windows not to write thru cache to disk by using the FIE_ATTRIBUTE_TEMPORARY?
see:
RAMDisk for temporary files with high acces rate?

See>>>...Cache Manager will do a much better job of keeping files in memory (particularly if you let Windows know they are temporary by passing FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TEMPORARY to CreateFile)....

[philkryder]

HERE is an ATMN with 542 lines.

It took me 13seconds to simply right click and disable the last line.

then I had to SAVE it before I could run it to test it.


One other suggestion that would help in many ways.

Since you often advise putting in extra delays to make the code reliable,
how about,
Just adding a 200 ms delay before any click or manage control or keystroke?

we wouldn't need to put them in,
and the editing could go faster.

they could be in the executable but not in the source.

thanks
Phil

[forumsupport]

Hello Phil,

Thank you for your suggestions. We use Local Settings Temp.

[philkryder]

do you have any experience using any of the ram disk products with AA6?

how about turning off UNDO until a longer term solution can be effected?

thanks for your help.
Phil

[philkryder]

what folder do you use for TEMP on WINDOWS 7?

is it
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp

to you use the ENVIRONMENT variable?

The reason I ask,
is that I installed a RAM DISK (DATARAM) as drive T (for temp)
and pointed my environment variables to it.

I now get a message when I try to edit an ATMN

error
35613
Imagelist must be initialized before it can be used.