Registering C7 templates

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Hi Friedrich,

Registering C7 templates works fine. But it takes quite a while. On a XP
Pro running in VMWare with 1GB ram (on a host with AMD quadcore and 5GB ram)
and only Clarion (4.0 - 7.0) installed it takes on average about 23-24
seconds to register a single .tpl file (46K file) I think actually the old
DDE in C6 is faster<g> I saw somewhere a comment about the registration
being slow and I'm definitely seeing this also.

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It's probably not a function of SetupBuilder causing the slowdown... more
than likely it's the C7 IDE... after all it is beta and "Managed Code"....

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Hi Ben,

> It's probably not a function of SetupBuilder causing the slowdown... more
> than likely it's the C7 IDE... after all it is beta and "Managed Code"....

If I remember correctly Friedrich said it took 3-4 seconds on his machines -
or maybe it was Bob Z. on the beta group. I'm getting confused in all
this<g> I did NOT have the Clarion 7 IDE open, which might explain it as
the clarioncl.exe probably needs to load some parts of the IDE in order to
register the templates.

On the SB side it would be nice to at least have an hourglass or something
indicating that the install hasn't died.

Best regards,

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Hi Arnór,

>> It's probably not a function of SetupBuilder causing the slowdown... more
>> than likely it's the C7 IDE... after all it is beta and "Managed
>> Code"....
>
> If I remember correctly Friedrich said it took 3-4 seconds on his
> machines - or maybe it was Bob Z. on the beta group. I'm getting confused
> in all this<g> I did NOT have the Clarion 7 IDE open, which might explain
> it as the clarioncl.exe probably needs to load some parts of the IDE in
> order to register the templates.

On our machines, it takes at least 20 seconds (and up to 38 seconds on two
XP machines).

I think the "problem" is that a .NET application handles the Clarion
template registration work. Some few DLLs of the IDE have to be loaded to
run the registration process and the .NET runtime itself has to be loaded by
the Windows OS. This takes some time.

> On the SB side it would be nice to at least have an hourglass or something
> indicating that the install hasn't died.

Good idea. I'll add this to SB6 and SB7.

Thanks,
Friedrich

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Hi Arnór,

> On the SB side it would be nice to at least have an hourglass or something
> indicating that the install hasn't died.

Added! This will be available in the next maintenance build.

Thank you for your suggestion.

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Hi Arnór,

> Registering C7 templates works fine. But it takes quite a while. On a XP
> Pro running in VMWare with 1GB ram (on a host with AMD quadcore and 5GB
> ram) and only Clarion (4.0 - 7.0) installed it takes on average about
> 23-24 seconds to register a single .tpl file (46K file) I think actually
> the old DDE in C6 is faster<g> I saw somewhere a comment about the
> registration being slow and I'm definitely seeing this also.

Yes, I also noticed this on all test machines here (even non-VMWare) and
that's why I added a note to the "Clarion 7 Template Registration Support"
thread ;-)

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Please note that the Clarion 7 tool (a .NET application) that registers the
template with the C7 IDE takes some time to complete!
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On two machines here (Pentium 4 running XP SP2) it even takes 38 seconds.

I already reported this to Bob Z. and they are doing some further testing.

Friedrich

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