Key Repeat rate?

[Alex Escott]

Thanks for the input all. Sounds like I'm seeing the same things as others.  I'm on FM9 and don't have the character or para designer open, but I do have structure, cross-ref, attributes, etc. open (and they need to be...). Sure enough, 2 of my 4 CPUs are pinned as I backspace through an element's text. Sigh. It routinely misses some keystrokes and I end up deleting a lot more that I want to since the key repeats get backed up for up to 3 or 4 seconds.

I haven't used anything other than frame to author DITA content. Is there another program that provides a semi-WYSIWYG interface for creating DITA content, that's more responsive?

-----Original Message-----
From: Klaus Daube [mailto:klaus at daube.ch] 
Sent: April-30-11 10:44 AM
To: Alex Escott; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Key Repeat rate?

On 26 Apr 2011 at 14:56, Alex Escott wrote:

>     Hi all, new to Frame and wondering what is up with the key repeat rate... it doesn´t match the 
>     system´s rate at all, and is painfully slow. Any way to fix this?

Alex,

Your observation depends on the version of FM.
Until version 7 the key-repeat rate was quite the same as in other applications.
- If you have the pargraph designer or character designer open in FM 8 the rate becomes low.
- If you have any pod open in FM 9/10 the rate becomes very low With the low rates - and if you _are_ a typist - characters may be spilled.

These are _my_ observations. Others may have others.

Klaus Daube
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