Hi, Chris,

Are you running the program inside the IDE, or inside a Command shell?
Shells usually work better for debugging UI-based programs.  Use
Project Properties, and check the "Run in shell window" box.

- Eric

On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 03:35:08PM -0500, Chris Chan wrote:
>  Hi,
>  
>  I'm running a wxPython app (animation) that requires a high frame rate. I have been testin
g out Visual Python, and have noticed that when running under the debugger there are some od
d halts...it seems to happen whenever I set at least one breakpoint (even though breakpoint 
is never hit), either mouse messages or screen refresh messages are stalled until I stop mov
ing the mouse, (at which point they are all processed). The result is slow, jerky animation.
 I then ran it just using pdb, ( setting the same breakpoint) and the app ran smoothly.
>  
>  Is Visual Python supposed to be this slow ? Is there any way to speed up execution ? Note:
 I'm running winxp on a P4 with 512 MB..
>  
>  Chris