Keyboard shortcuts very slow

[jkoseattle]

When I need to edit keyboard shortcuts, CW is taking about 15 seconds to bring that panel up. Once it's up everything seems to work fine. Also, if I close the Preferences window while on the keyboard shortcuts page, then simply hitting P makes it wait 15 seconds, because it has remembered that was the last page I was on. If I don't go to Keyboard Shortcuts, then the Preferences window opens right up normally. What's going on?

[OutrageProductions]

In my experience for at least a decade or so, calling the keyboard shortcut dialog has always had a delay of a few seconds or more depending on the speed of your system. Nothing to get upset about.

[jkoseattle]

It's just a new thing. I'm talking a full 15 seconds. Used to be ~3

[OutrageProductions]

You could try a disk defrag (if it is a spinner HD) at the OS level. Then rebuild your search DBF at the OS level.

[John Vere]

It’s about that much if not more for me. I thought it was broken. I’ve just become used to it and I go cut the lawn or something while waiting. 

[Starship Krupa]

On 6/24/2023 at 3:02 PM, Lord Tim said:

Considering you said you lost CTRL+S in another thread, this is sounding a little bit suspicious to me, like your KBN keyboard shortcut file has gotten corrupted somehow.

I wonder if the "save your keyboard binding in a file and delete all lines in the file which contain: Kx00530B, then load  that keyboard binding file" fix that the OP tried also fixed this issue.

[User 905133]

On 6/24/2023 at 6:02 PM, Lord Tim said:

Considering you said you lost CTRL+S in another thread, this is sounding a little bit suspicious to me . . . .

5 hours ago, murat k. said:

It seems you have a faulty keyboard binding registry.
Just save your keyboard binding in a file and delete all lines in the file which contains: Kx00530B
Then load  that keyboard binding file.

There is a keyboard binding bug in the Cakewalk for years, I hope developers will fix it in the final CbBversion.

5 hours ago, jkoseattle said:

That fixed it! Wow, I wonder how long I've had that bug in there. Thank you so much!  [emphasis added]

  

[aleo]

I first experienced the same problem a couple of months ago.  I don't often go to the Keyboard Shortcuts page, and this was several months after I updated CbB to v. 2022.11.  If I'm moving down the list of pages in Preferences, all of the pages except Keyboard Shortcuts open within less than half a second, but Keyboard Shortcuts takes about six seconds to open.  Every function on the page seems to work okay; I can create new shortcuts, bind and unbind keys without any problem.  The interesting thing I observed is that once you have opened the Shortcuts page during a CbB session and return to it a second or third time it opens as quickly as the other pages. I don't have any idea of what the cause might be.  I did perform a disk defragment a few weeks ago, for routine disk maintenance, and that did seem to reduce the delay by a couple of seconds.