CPU Usage With Dialogs

[jspence]

Hello All,

I am new to the forum and program but I am learning and truly enjoying Macro Scheduler 15.

I was using autohotkey for a couple of years and am working on transferring over my scripts to Macro Scheduler.
I have observed something strange, to me anyway, that when running my script with two dialogs, containing list boxes, that CPU usage goes up to 10% and stays there. My code is a mess but I have no loops. I am using the standard AddDialogHandler to process mouse clicks in the list boxes.

I then did a test with a script having only one dialog and one button. Without any dialog handler specified the CPU was at 10% again.

Running the example calculator dialog script resulted in the same high CPU usage.

My system is running AMD RYZEN 5 3600 6-Core 3.6 GHz with 64 GB memory, Windows 10 Pro.

Is this considered normal? My previous dialogs from other languages shows usually a very close to 0 CPU usage.
Maybe I should use event handlers?

Thank you for any help you can provide,

Jim S.

[Dorian (MJT support)]

That's certainly not something I remember seeing reported before. Running a dialog has virtually no impact on CPU usage for me. That said, I also started the Calculator one and it shot up momentarily the first time I ran it. It came straight back down again and didn't increase on subsequent runs.

I'll mention this to dev and we'll see if they have any ideas.

[jspence]

Hello,

Thank you for responding. I found out that running it outside of the editor does not cause this issue. I am only seeing this problem when running inside the editor. After doing some reading it seems this is because the debugger is running also.

Sorry for the confusion.

Jim S.

[Dorian (MJT support)]

Ah, good to hear. Thank you for the update.