Textual strangeness

Been enjoying a test drive with 2.0 this morning, but there is one curiosity: When I type, there is a lag of a second or so between the time when I hit the keys and the time when the words appear on the screen. IOW, if I type “Been enjoying” in a Scriv 2 file, the words are invisible until a noticeable moment after I have stopped, when, poof, the entire phrase appears.

It’s odd and appears to happen in projects that used a template and ones that I created without choosing any template.

Wondering what might be causing thing. Maybe I’ve done something wrong in pref settings?

Cheers (and congrats!)

David

Sorry, I see my problem. It has something to do with “Highlight the current line.” When I uncheck that I get normal behavior. Guess I messed up my highlight color somewhere else in prefs.

Apologies for the false alarm. Scriv 2 is great. I am not involved in NaNoWriMo, but I couldn’t wait another week to try it!

best

David

Strange - glad it’s got a definite cause though. I’m wondering if the highlight line feature is causing the slowdown or a corrupted preference, though. What happens if you trash your preferences file (~/Library/Preferences/com.literatureandlatte.scrivener2.plist) and try again?

Thanks!
Keith

Hmm. Will try that.

OK… let’s see what happens:

And the answer is… Problem gone. Text appears as soon as I type.

However, the 'highlight current line" color is the same as the background color of the page, so it doesn’t highlight. I just changed it to green. But now, that has no effect. The current line is not highlighted. This was not the behavior I had this morning, when ‘current line’ did go green when that preference was ticked. At the cost of not showing the current line typed text until I was on to a new line.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

David

I see now I have confused Highlight Current Line from Full Screen with Highlight Current Line (not full screen), so, in fact, I can get ‘current line’ to highlight in non-full screen. Contrary to my previous. Sorry for my confusion (though I think it was somewhat abetted by having two ‘Highlight Current Line’ boxes to tick).

Anyway, bottom line is that a new pref file did make the delay go away.

Many thanks, Keith!

David

Great, glad it seems to be working okay. Preference files can do strange things sometimes…
All the best,
Keith