[Interest] Assistant is slow in my application

[Koehne Kai]

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> From: interest-bounces+kai.koehne=digia.com at qt-project.org
> [mailto:interest-bounces+kai.koehne=digia.com at qt-project.org] On Behalf Of
> Graham Labdon
> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 12:12 PM
> To: Interest at qt-project.org
> Subject: [Interest] Assistant is slow in my application
> 
> Hi
> My application uses QAssistant as the help viewer and works well on my
> development machine.
> However, when I install the application on a target machine Assistant takes 30s
> to appear.

If started for the first time assistant might spend some time on building the search index, though the UI should show up just normally  ...

> Has anyone else experienced this before?
> Anyone got any suggestions as to why it should be slow on the target
> machine?

We had huge delays on Windows XP for non-Administrative users, because the .qch files were first opened with read-write (which failed, apparently after a timeout or s.th.). Fix is in 5.2 : 

https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,71209

(I guess it could also be trivially backported to Qt 4, though I haven't checked yet).

Regards

Kai

> Thanks
> 
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