Block Loading Time is 2 hours

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Dear sirs.
When I click the block button for loading block coding.
It took more than 2 hours.
if loading is completed, it works well.
problem is, if i didn't do anything right after loading, session was closed due to time-out.
design button is no problem.

Blocks are several thousands.
PC and Notebook has the same loading time. (> 2hours)

How can I speed up the loading time of block...

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When you have too many blocks spread out over too large a surface area,
the Blocks Editor hits a complexity limit when it tries to generate a blocks.png file for the screen.

There are two main approaches to deal with this:

  • Start a Google Doc with a Table of Contents explaining your app, with sections for Design, Data, Code, including Downloaded Png images of all Events, Procedures, Globals, and with html cross-links for easy navigation. Such a doc becomes easier to read than a complete blocks image, because you have FIND, Next, PREV, back functionality, and you can add paragraphs of commentary around your code. This is my preferred life saver when doing a very large complex app. If you go this route, try to arrange your blocks geographically in a column matching the order of your Table of Contents, then do periodic Clean Up Blocks to pull them inline. This sometimes lowers the load on the Blocks Editor.
  • Reduce your block count:
    • Use parametrized procedures for common code
    • Use Media text files instead of big clumps of text blocks
    • Use generic blocks instead of repeating component event blocks
    • Encode repeating decision patterns into lookup tables loaded from Media csv text files (does your blocks image look like a box of combs?)
    • You don't need a component for every data instance. Reuse those components.
    • If you can't fit data into a ListView or List Picker, show a small subset of the data in an Arrangement and slide it across the larger list of data.
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Thanks for your kind reply.
but, I can't understand your comments.
please, share URL that explain the detail~

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If you are using Chrome, you could try switching to Firefox, which tends to have better rendering performance of large block workspaces.

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You can also try Firefox Developer Edition which gives me slight better performance while comparing with other Browsers

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When i use firefox, it takes only several minutes.
Thanks.

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When you are stuck in a hole, stop digging.

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If you could export your project and share it with me privately, I would be interested in doing some traces on it to see what could be the possible cause of the performance issues.

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