Slow rendering of theword when switching apps

[zolee]

When I swtich between apps on my PC (alt + tab) and then return to TheWord, theword renders very slow. I literaly can see how different parts of the layout are drawn. It needs 2-3 seconds to finish.
Sometimes it is just fine but most of the time it renders layout slow.

All other apps, I can just switch them normaly and they are visible immediately without any drawing.

Why is that? How it can be fixed?

My laptop is not newest but far away from being slow. Intel i5 8th gen, 16GB ram.

[jonathangkoehn]

How many Floating windows are open?
How many views?
Also have you rebooted recently something may have eaten up your ram and it needs refreshed.

Another thing to check is how old is your PC? PCs tend to wear out over time.

[zolee]

I have 16Gb of RAM. RAM is not the issue.

Also, PC is is running very smoothly and I have zero problems with it generaly speaking.

This behaviour is unique to TheWord app.

I dont have floating windows. Just normal 3 column layout with two views in each column.

[JG]

Sadly we don't have computers that can do tasks instantly (yet). The more information that needs to be rendered the longer it takes.

[zolee]

You are wrong. We acctualy do have computers that on alt + tab instantly recall window of already open app.
Even video rendering app with open project and long videos loaded and does recall itself instantly. Right now I have 12 open apps (including video rendering software with loaded project), almost 30 tabs in 2 different interner browsers. They all do reacall themselfs instatntly upon alt + tab.
Go check it yourself, pres Alt +tab.

TheWord (and esword when I had it) is the only app that behaves in this way I described in the first post. If it is minimised, or switched for a longer time, upon maximizing or switching back, it literaly needs 2.5-3 sec to redraw itself. That is happening even if just restarted and TheWord is the only app loaded. Even with different laptops I had over the years and fully new Windows instalations.

Not a big deal, just wodering is it just me, the way app is made and if there is a workarround.

[JG]

Thanks for editing your post after I Reddit

Similar multi-view apps like EditPad Pro, PowerGrep, RegexBuddy(written in Delphi as is theWord), Visual studio, will at some point take time to render on restore. It appears that the common feature of these apps to theWord, is that they can/do all contain several active views within the main window, so on restore they are not just rendering one view, but many and that does take time.

[zolee]

Yea, I acctualy just came back from reddit but after a while I thought that I might have inserted nonexistent meaning into what you wrote.

Yea ok, so, it is the way the app is made. No workarround.