The Font Overview panel becomes extremely laggy and unresponsive when scrolling.

The Font Overview panel in FontCreator becomes extremely laggy and unresponsive when scrolling. There is a noticeable delay in response, regardless of whether I use the mouse wheel, the touchpad, or drag the scrollbar directly.

The issue occurs with both non-CJK and CJK fonts. Selecting specific categories from the Font Categories Panel on the left to load only fonts of those categories also causes the same problem.

It seems that this issue has been present since version 16.0.0.3070.

System Information:

  • OS: Windows 11 (Version 26H1, OS Build 28120.3181, 64-bit)
  • RAM: 8 GB
  • CPU: Intel Core i7-6500U

How many glyphs are in your fonts? CJK fonts can have thousands of glyphs.

Hi, I tested both Source Serif 4 (No-CJK, 1,464 glyphs) and WenYuan Serif SC (CJK, 35,235 glyphs, aka “文渊宋体”). I selected glyphs in the “Characters - Uppercase Letters” category, which contains 311 glyphs in Source Serif 4 and 254 glyphs in WenYuan Serif SC. When scrolling through the Font Overview panel, I noticed a noticeable lag in the panel’s scrolling response.

I tested with Source Serif 4 Regular, and with my own Pali Regular (2,000+ glyphs).

Scrolling is laggy with both fonts. It is not unusable, but I don’t recall having this problem in earlier versions.

Hardware: nSpire Zen2 Pro AMD Ryzen 5 3400G Quad-Core Win10 Home Plus

Software: FontCreator 16.0.0.3083

I don’t see the slow scrolling, it goes just fine.

Can you show a screenshot of FontCreator, so we see the Font Overview and get a better understanding of how you have set up your user interface?

Here is a short video.

Scrolling FontCreatort.7z (2.0 MB)

I tested with 16.0.0.3064, 3070 and 3082 separately. In my laptop, using Source Serif 4 as the test font, scrolling in the Font Overview panel is relatively smooth in 3064, but there is very noticeable laggy in 3070 and 3082.

This issue is indeed quite puzzling…

Videos:

I cannot upload video directly because it say new users can not upload attachments.

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