VWL response is slow

[Robert Anderson]

Chris, if this is a document corruption, you may be able to solve it by transferring the data to another document.

1. Open a blank document. Set it up to have the same layers as your old doc.

2. Import the "System folder" from your old document to your new one. This will transfer your plant library.

3. Copy and paste the layers one by one to the new document.

See if you see the slowdown.

[pch]

All,

I am using VW-Landmark version 10.1.0 and the response

time is horribly slow. I'm new to VWL and this is my

first drawing so I'm sure it is possible that with

all my mistakes in the learning process that I may

have corrupted some control file that VWL uses

which may be causing the delayed response.

Here are some specifics:

Plant Styles are NOT being used.

3D is NOT being used.

Workstation specifics:

AMD XP 1.5GHZ

Windows XP

752mb of memory

The simplest actions result in a long delay. For

example attempting the following actions:

1) change an attribute of an object

2) edit a gradient

3) duplicate a gradient

result in an "hour glass" symbol being returned and

VW being unresponsive for aaprox 90-120 seconds. Eventually

the "hour glass" is gone the action is completed

and I can move on with my next action. As you can imagine

2 minutes per action is completely unreasonable and makes

the software rather useless at this point.

The drawing is not complex. About 10 vegetation lines and

about 10 different plants.

I recently purchased VWL and for everything that I can

see thus far I really like the product. I am hopeful that

my many mistakes have somehow corrupted a control file

that is causing such a delay in an action being

completed. Any help would be appreciated.

[pch]

Robert,

Thank You ! The file was evidently corrupted. Copying the layers as you described took care of the problem.

Chris