[plt-scheme] annoying hanging behavior when saving files on DrScheme version 3.99.0.13-svn26feb2008, english

From: Benjamin L. Russell (dekudekuplex at yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Mar 30 22:22:00 EDT 2008

Actually, no.  This seems to happen only in DrScheme.

Benjamin L. Russell

--- Chongkai Zhu <czhu at cs.utah.edu> wrote:

> Have you experience the same when trying
> saving/renaming in other 
> applications? Seems this is more about Windows file
> system than DrScheme 
> itself.
> 
> Chongkai
> 
> Benjamin L. Russell wrote:
> > In DrScheme version 3.99.0.13-svn26feb2008,
> english,
> > when I type anything into the Definitions window,
> > click on the "Save" button, and then try to
> navigate
> > through the folder tree to a folder to save the
> file,
> > DrScheme hangs at a random point in the folder
> > navigation process for about seven to eighteen
> > seconds.
> >
> > Exactly where DrScheme hangs seems to be random,
> but
> > this usually happens within about five seconds of
> > pressing the "Save" button and then clicking on
> the
> > down-arrow next to the folder name at the top of
> the
> > "Select a file" dialog box.
> >
> > The same hanging behavior occurs randomly whenever
> I
> > try to right-click on a file or folder to rename
> it or
> > to copy the filename in this dialog box as well.
> >
> > This hanging behavior sometimes happens multiple
> times
> > when navigating through a deep folder, or when
> > renaming multiple files/folders, in that dialog
> box.
> >
> > I am using DrScheme on Windows XP Professional
> Service
> > Pack 2 (at work).  I tried rebooting my PC and
> > restarting DrScheme, but the same general
> phenomenon
> > still recurs.
> >
> > The same phenomenon has also happened with
> DrScheme
> > v371 as well.
> >
> > Could somebody please tell me how to fix this
> problem?
> >
> > Benjamin L. Russell
> >
> >   
> 



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