[Windows] Delay before keystrokes are recognized

[johanndev]

First and foremost, congratulations on an amazing piece of software! As the windows version is still in alpha, this issue will be probably already on your radar.

System info

Windows 11 Version 22H2 (OS Build 22621.1105)

Issue

There is a considerable delay between the opening Script Kit via shortcut (instantaneous) and the recognition of key strokes.

In this animation I tried capture the issue - there is a ~3 second delay between pressing the 'g' and the prompt becoming active.

[johnlindquist]

@johanndev Hrmm, this is the first time anyone has reported this and I don't see that on any of my testing machines...

Does the lag still exist when running a script, or only in the main menu? Do you have any other keyboard software running that listens for keystrokes?

Do either of these logs contain anything suspicious?

Main.log: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Kit\logs\main.log Kit.log: %USERPROFILE%.kit\logs\kit.log

[johanndev]

Tailing the kit.log while opening the prompt revealed that the delay happens on the Create child Prompt process [] step.

Example log output:

[2023-01-19 17:04:45.463] [info] WebContents Focus
[2023-01-19 17:04:45.467] [info] ↖ Bounds: Prompt arg ui { x: 896, y: 174, width: 768, height: 480 }
[2023-01-19 17:04:45.468] [info] Focus
[2023-01-19 17:04:45.469] [info] Focus
[2023-01-19 17:04:45.533] [info] Add one idle process
[2023-01-19 17:04:45.533] [info] 👶 Create child Prompt process  [] <---- Hangs here
[2023-01-19 17:04:49.840] [info] 26492: 🟢 start idle Prompt
[2023-01-19 17:04:49.845] [info] Prompt window in bounds.
[2023-01-19 17:04:51.450] [info] ✋ Escape pressed
[2023-01-19 17:04:51.458] [info] DISCONNECT
[2023-01-19 17:04:51.472] [info] EXIT { pid: 28444, code: 0 }
[2023-01-19 17:04:51.473] [info] 28444: 🟡 exit 0. Prompt process: C:\Users\myuser\.kit\main\index.js
[2023-01-19 17:04:51.473] [info] 28444: 🛑 removed
[2023-01-19 17:04:51.510] [info] ↖ Bounds: Prompt none ui { x: 896, y: 174, width: 768, height: 480 }
[2023-01-19 17:04:51.562] [info] ✋ Escape released

Demonstration:

[johnlindquist]

Hrmm, looks like it must be related to this:

https://medium.com/actualbudget/the-horror-of-blocking-electrons-main-process-351bf11a763c

I'm not sure why your setup would be blocking while I've never experienced it though. 🤔

I'll look into moving the "createChild" off of the main process.