Adafruit Permaproto causes lag

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Steps I took that resulted in the problem:

Import Adafruit Fritzing Library


Place the permaproto half size (any other should do as well) board and add a few components
editing will become very slow and laggy

What I expected should have happened instead:

should be smooth and responsive

My version of Fritzing and my operating system:

0.9.3, Windows 10

Please also attach any files that help explaining this problem

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Happened to me when there are too many detailed parts at the same time and you zoom out. Seems to be a problem related to program perfomance which can’t be solved right now since there isn’t maintenance from devs.

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Try turning off the grid feature. If it is set to a low value it can cause massive lag. If turning it off helps but you want to use it then set it to as large of a value as you can use.

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I can confirm that there is a significant reduction in program performance when any size Adafruit Perma-Proto PCB is used added to the BB window. I Also reproduced this lag with a similar setup as you are working with (Win-10 & Fritz-9.2b).
KC

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Would you please post an example sketch which shows the slow response time? I tried with an older (2017 vintage) adafruit part and don’t see an unacceptable reduction in response on 9.3.b on Win7 pro, but there may be a later version of the part that reacts worse (or I may have used the wrong part :slight_smile: ).

Peter

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I noticed the same thing today on Ubuntu. It wasn’t a problem when I tried them 1-2 year ago. As soon as I started trying to place any parts on the board, each hole would flicker blue really fast as the parts passed over it. I’ll try my older Adafruit library to compare.

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Interesting, because I’m not seeing this even with the latest adafruit version on 9.3b and win7 (or I’m using the wrong parts). Check your view->set grid size is set to the default .1 in (finer grids are known to cause this problem) if you haven’t already. If I could get it to reproduce I’d look at the coding of the part as being the likely performance hit (but as noted I can’t reproduce this so far).

Peter

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@Knochi
Well, This reply is many moons later but I figured out that the cause of the lag on my MacOS machine was a super complicated background layer in the Icon and Breadboard SVGs. I have removed the overly complicated layer with a simplified one and “generic-ized” some of the common Adafruit Perma Proto boards.

Generic PermaProto Mint Tin Size.fzpz (27.1 KB)
Generic PermaProto Small Mint.fzpz (23.4 KB)
Generic PermaProto Quarter-sized Board.fzpz (17.3 KB)
Generic PermaProto Half-sized Board.fzpz (24.7 KB)
Generic PermaProto Full-sized Board.fzpz (41.4 KB)

:slight_smile: