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Why is wxTextCtrl so slow at displaying text?

I have a wxTextCtrl and I need to put a very large string into it. (Like a 15 MB string) The only problem is it's very slow. Here is what I'm doing: char * buff = ... wxString data(buff, wxConvUTF8); text->ChangeValue(data); However, this is not the bottleneck. That occurrs as soon as the function this block of code is in returns. The...

Problems exporting a 3305 page report (95000 records) using Crystal Reports 8 to RTF/Word/Excel

I'm having problems exporting a 3305 page report (95000 records) using CR 8 to RTF. When exporting a TXT file, it works. But... When exporting a large RTF, the program hangs at about 42% of the export process. Later it frees up the system, appears to finish, and outputs a file. The file itself is not complete (many records missing...

keydown freezes timer c#

Hey, I am making a frogger type game and I am using a timer to make the images move across the screen. I am also using the keydown event to handle when the user moves the 'frog'. So, w moved up, s moves down etc. The problem I have come across is that whenever the user presses any movement button, the timer freezes. This means if the us...

DirectShow Filter I wrote dies after 10-24 seconds in Skype video call

I've written a DirectShow push filter for use with Skype using Delphi Pro 6 and the DSPACK DirectShow library. In preview mode, when you test a video input device in the Skype client Video Settings window, my filter works flawlessly. I can leave it up and running for many minutes without an error. However when I start a video call aft...

Long Running Powershell Script Freezes

Dear PowerShell users of SO, We are using a long running PowerShell script to perform a lot of small operations that can take an extremely long amount of time. After about 30 minutes the scripts froze. We were able to get the scripts to start running again by pressing Ctrl-C which caused the scripts to resume execution instead of killin...