id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	blockedby	blocking	notify_on_close	platform	project
232	Model panel slows down movie recording	Tom Goddard	Eric Pettersen	"Model panel slows down movie recording when I display a sequence of 391 models one per frame with

permodel ""show #$1 model only"" range 1,391

which runs at 40 frames per second if I do not autostart model panel, and 3 frames/sec if Model Panel has been started.  Apparently updating the shown checkbuttons takes 1/3 second each frame.

Instead of attaching my 300 Mbyte multi-model PDB to reproduce this problem it is easier to generate an example by opening say 400 copies of one model with

perframe ""open 1a0m"" range 1,400

then wait 20 seconds or so for all those copies to open.

I don't see any easy way to optimize the model panel checkbutton updates.  It would help a lot if closing Model Panel made it not update, so I can close it before recording a long movie.  Currently after closing Model Panel it still takes just as long, apparently updating the undisplayed dialog.  Perhaps an easy fix would be to destroy Model Panel when closed.


"	enhancement	closed	minor		Performance		wontfix						all	ChimeraX