Text appears very slowly in preview area

When I enter text the preview is updated very slowly. On an archive layout the preview is also flashing with every new character.


Here’s what I’m getting in the console:

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I have the same issue.

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Hi @Jvp,

I’ll see if there’s more we can do to tune that text control.

One thing to consider is that when you’re in the archive layout builder, every change takes longer to calculate. The archive mode is treated as if a Looper is active for all elements in use. When using Looper, anytime you change an element inside it, the whole element tree re-renders. This naturally makes the archive mode slower than other builders since it’s as if you are re-rendering the whole page with each change.

Makes sense but is what you’re seeing in the vids the normal acceptable behaviour? The flashing is especially annoying.

If I make some adjustments I’m hoping it won’t trigger successive re-renders and only accept the final one. This would reduce the flashing. Unfortunately the flashing isn’t something we can remove entirely. Each change is like refreshing the page, so it re-triggers all effects. You could click the preview manager and do “Force Scroll Effects” to prevent it from happening during the live preview