EXT Designer - Large Project File - Designer Unstable / Crashes

[oomta]

Hello Sencha,

I use Ext Designer daily (latest version) and I find that it regularly crashes. This, I believe, is due to the size of my project file (around 1.7mb).

It wouldn't be so bad, but when crashing (especially during saving), it wipes out the entire project file (bringing it back to 0kb). Fortunately I have hourly backups, but still not desirable... it kinda puts fear in your heart every time you hit the save button

The product, otherwise, is awesome.

If something could be done to improve support for large files, that would be great.

Thanks!

[jsakalos]

Do you want me to move this thread to a designer forum?

[oomta]

Sure thing, probably a more appropriate place for it anyway.
My mistake, sorry!

[aconran]

oomta -

We'd love to see your project. If you would be willing to share it, please send to designer.feedback at sencha.com.

We would also like to hear more details about how the app crashes. Does a popup display? Is there a specific way that you can always reproduce the crash?

[lorezyra]

@oomta

Can you view how much memory XDS is using?
On Winblows, you can pull up the task manager and look under processes.
On Linux, run ps (consult your man page for the appropriate switches like "-aux"). Or, if you don't want to fiddle with it too much, try the "top" command.

Also, see my bug report on this topic...
http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthre...ge-memory-leak


I've seen XDS (aka Designer) get very sluggish or freeze up after about 1GB of memory usage. My home PC has 8GB of RAM with about 6GB open... So, memory isn't really the issue on my hardware. However, if your development platform is, say, a laptop with only 1GB of memory... then you can expect it to crash very quickly.

[Phil.Strong]

Yes please give us as much data as your able. Welcome to send your project file discreetly to designer.feedback -at- sencha.com

[Nxs]

Very bad news for me...

Ext Designer (Version: 1.2.3 Build: 52) crashes while saving the project and, as oomta said, it overrides
the ".xds" file with...nothing. 0 Ko -> one day and a half of use lost.

I really don't understand why you don't make a persistent backup of the project BEFORE overriting the original file ???

By this way we could retrieve the previous version of the project (in case of crash or simply if we want to go back..)...

It's very frustrating...loosing so time...

Please for the next update add this functionality...please.

P.S: Size of my project file : 1.59 Mo. And I don't have the authorization to share it...

[Nxs]

...is there only a way to import-back from the "view/ and view/ui" generated files in order to recreate the xds file ...?

[oomta]

Hi nxs,

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but unfortunately Ext Designer v1 has this issue... it won't be fixed, as Sencha Architect has become the new norm.

Can you re-import the view files from the .js? Sadly, no... I thought the exact same thing when it happened.

In the end, we resorted to making 5 minute interval zipped backups of our .xds file, just in case something happened. If you don't have a backup... yeah, I truly do feel your pain.

If you can upgrade to Sencha Architect, we've found it to be MUCH more stable and usable then Ext Designer ever was. We've never had the 0kb crash issue and the project is no longer in one .xds file anymore, so source control is possible.

I recommend you upgrade ASAP.

Sorry to hear about you losing your data.