Ahhh, at last, someone brings up this issue, thanks dop.
I have this problem and its effect is proportional to the size of the project (in my experience)
It's become so bad in larger projects that I've had to remove the majority of my global variables so they wouldn't fill in with the drop down list when typing.
My Triggers:
- If I have a lot of global variables
- If I have a lot of objects
- If I have a lot of instance variables for an object and I type the "." to access the objects expressions/attributes
- If I use the action: Set group active and I have a lot of groups due to autofill dropdown list
Basically anything that falls under increasing the count in the dropdown list seems to influence the frequency of this lag/freeze.
I wish there was a way to modify the dropdown list, such as:
- Only show the top (10,20,etc) results
- Only show results if the length of the typed string is at least X characters long
If I find some time, I might show a recording of just how slow this can get.
Project I'm working on is large: 2500 objects, 15k events.
If I open a new project it's smooth as butter for these operations.