On Sat, 5 Jun 2004, Michael Wheeler wrote:
Bryce Harrington wrote:
Hmm... There have been only a few changes to that dialog; the only significant one I know about is the addition of the marker previews. Can you look on the Stroke Style page and see if your marker dropdowns have the previews they should? I'm wondering if perhaps it's getting stuck loading those up. Otherwise, the dialog is pretty straightforward and concise Gtk code so it shouldn't be taking much time to load.
The marker previews are there and working, although the scroll thing that they pop up in is a little goofy. However it seems like it may be the marker previews that are causing the delays. I renamed the markers.svg file and the F&S dialog came up quick as a whip. Of course, there are no longer any markers to pick from.
Okay, sounds like that's our culprit. Next thing - can you experiment and see if it happens to be a particular marker that's causing the trouble? Try removing them one by one from markers.svg, especially look for ones that require excessive amounts of SVG to describe or that have complex features in them that might be causing extra rendering time. My bet is that there's just one or two markers that are getting the renderer into a loop, and if they can be redrawn more carefully, it will resolve the issue.
Bryce