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MauriceG
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Germany
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Posted - Nov 18 2024 :  03:28:25 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hi,

current version of Visual Assist (2024.8) seems to have a bug when opening a C++ file that's not part of the solution. The navigation bar will constantly switch between 2 states. One is the expected one and the other one is mostly empty and just shows the project of a file I had opened previously instead of "Miscellaneous Files".

Regards,
Maurice

feline
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Posted - Nov 19 2024 :  06:40:14 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Apologies for this problem. I believe we have a fix coming in the next build for this, and have emailed you about this:

case=165171

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KoenTanghe
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Belgium
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Posted - Dec 02 2024 :  10:47:11 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Just wanted to confirm that I'm also seeing this flickering navigation bar sometimes.
I didn't realize it was due to a file not being part of the project though.

VA_X64.dll file version 10.9.2537.0 built 2024.10.27
DevEnv.exe version 17.11.35431.28 Community
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feline
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Posted - Dec 02 2024 :  11:35:47 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I have emailed you about this.

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foxmuldr
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USA
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Posted - Dec 03 2024 :  12:49:30 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I am not seeing the behavior MauriceG or KoenTanghe are seeing. It appears to work normally.

VA_X64.dll file version 10.9.2537.0 built 2024.10.27
DevEnv.ese version 17.12.35521.163 Professional

I did notice one oddity: It took over 10 seconds after opening the file before the Navigation bar appeared. The cpp file was 197 lines long. Same on a .h file that's 18 lines long. When the navigation bar first comes up after the 10+ seconds, it's blank / empty for about 1/2 second, then it populates and behaves normally.

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feline
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Posted - Dec 04 2024 :  07:56:50 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I have yet to reproduce the flashing navigation bar here, so I don't have any good ideas for the trigger condition. It is something that several people have reported, but far from everyone. So it seems that "something" is triggering it, but that really doesn't get me very far as a statement.

For the slow navigation bar, was this when you first loaded a solution? Or is it an ongoing problem even once the solution is fully loaded and VA and the IDE have finished any intellisense parsing required for solution updates?

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foxmuldr
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Posted - Dec 04 2024 :  09:00:54 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Due to the delays I saw, is it possibly related to the CPU / performance of the machine?

I'm using a relatively low-end development machine:

11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1165G7 @ 2.80GHz
4 real cores
8 logical cores
32 GB RAM
1 TB SSD
Visual Studio 2022 Professional

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feline
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Posted - Dec 04 2024 :  11:30:05 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
It's possible. Solution size and complexity will also matter here.

Are you seeing any other signs of the machine being slow to keep up at times?

You can try disabling IDE intellisense, this can help quite a lot under some conditions, since it stops you from having two intellisense parsers running at the same time:

IDE tools menu -> Options -> Text Editor -> C/C++ -> Advanced -> IntelliSense -> Disable IntelliSense = True

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foxmuldr
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USA
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Posted - Dec 04 2024 :  2:39:59 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Not generally. Visual Studio 2022 is actually quite speedy overall for everything except three areas:

1. Opening a non-project file as indicated in this thread.
2. Opening a large file (5000+ lines) and having the StickyScroll area at the top not show up for a few seconds. Only happens the first time the file is opened in a Visual Studio launch.
3. Edit-and-continue on C++ code takes a while to apply sometimes. Sometimes even 15+ seconds. When I work in Visual Studio 2008 and earlier, it's much faster. Visual Studio 98 is almost instantaneous, and up through Visual Studio 2005 it takes a second or two.

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feline
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Posted - Dec 05 2024 :  07:42:39 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
When opening a non project file, do you see multiple messages on the status bar about VA parsing files? In order to be active in the file, which we can probably assume VA has never seen before, VA will have to parse the file and all of its includes. If this is a totally new project to VA, there could be several files to parse. This is just a guess, but its a reasonable theory given the description.

If this is the case then re-opening the file later on should be a lot faster.

File size could be a factor here. My large file, for testing VA in bigger files, is 23,000 lines long. But very heavy macro or template code can also be a factor.

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foxmuldr
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Posted - Dec 05 2024 :  09:03:19 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I see something popup down there that says "VA Parsing" but it's a blip for like 1/5th of a second. So, it's not taking a long time.

It's interesting to note that when I opened the same file today, after rebooting my machine, that I opened the other day, it opened immediately, and the Nav bar was ready to go immediately.

However, when I opened a new file that I had not opened previously, it took 10 seconds to load, and one second after the Nav bar appeared before it was populated. I only saw the VA parsing blip go by for 1/5th second again. There's definitely some kind of issue there though.

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feline
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Posted - Dec 06 2024 :  10:17:02 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Where is keyboard focus during this delay? If keyboard focus isn't going into the opened file, into the text editor, then this can delay the appearance of the VA navigation bar in the newly opened file.

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