AdiIRC

Typo error on testing example code, sorry, use that new for testing out:

dialog test_table {
  title "Testing" 
  size -1 -1 259 113
  option dbu
  tab "Tab 1", 5, 5 3 252 105
  list 1, 12 21 239 85, tab 5 size
  tab "Tab 2", 6
  list 2, 11 21 240 85, tab 6 size
}

ON *:DIALOG:test_table:*:init: {
  var %i = 1
  while (%i <= 100) { did -a $dname 1,2 test %i | inc %i }
}

I don't see any link between the size of the user access list and changing tabs in the dialog, why would there be?

For the listbox itself, even with 10000 items, it's swaps instantly.

However doing /auser in a loop like that is very slow since it writes the full file and reads it back on every iteration, it wasn't designed with loops in mind.

I think you are leaving out some details here.

Are you or are you not accessing auser data in your dialog?

dialog test_table {
  title "Testing" 
  size -1 -1 259 113
  option dbu
  tab "Tab 1", 5, 5 3 252 105
  list 1, 12 21 239 85, tab 5 size
  tab "Tab 2", 6
  list 2, 11 21 240 85, tab 6 size
}

ON *:DIALOG:test_table:*:init: {
  var %i = 1
  while (%i <= 100) { did -a $dname 1,2 test %i | inc %i }
}

Have you tried running this script on a stock AdiIRC with no other scripts?

Total amoubt of lines of scripts doesn't matter, internally everything is broken down into sections, tokens etc.

Since switching tabs triggers on DIALOG, maybe one or more on DIALOG event is triggered from another script and doing something heavy, I suggest disabling one script at the time until you find it.

I test this to see if an other ON DIALOG event is triggering from an other script file but it doesn't, on other script files the ON DIALOG event has different name of dialog name to trigger thought.

I don't have something like:

ON *:DIALOG:*:*:*: { }

Okay, but I would still try "Ignore" one script at the time and see if you discover something.

I did some digging, looking up a user access level is pretty slow, the more levels, the slower it gets and each on DIALOG event does a lookup, however I found that the user access level lookup is done before checking the :*: parameters, that would explain why disabling other on DIALOG scripts is faster, since it has to do less user access level lookups.

I moved the check after the other checks in on DIALOG in this build https://adiirc.com/build/AdiIRC64.exe.

Yes, the problem solved, i try your build and now the speed is as it should be.

- Thanks!

Okay that's good to know, the problem is, this is not the correct behavior, user level access should be checked first, not sure what to do about that.

mIRC will have the same problem.

I've also test that in mIRC and it's delay is 200ms to 500ms on 10.000 items in user list :P , but now the AdiIRC is faster than mIRC AND in that part! 0-50ms delay on AdiIRC is perfect.

Sure, because it's not doing the check properly, but I have to put it back so everything works correctly again, which means it will be slow again, at least until I find some kind of work around.

Just to be clear, the next AdiIRC beta is gonna be slow again, the build I made was just to test what the cause might be.

Ok, i hope for a fix in the future :)