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DavidJameson's avatar
DavidJameson
Occasional Contributor
8 years ago

Why is Performance Profiler indicating no routines analyzed

This is almost embarrassing. I was an AQTime user 12 years ago and earlier using it with Delphi. Now, I'm working on a project in C++ (just native) and, with a brand new license, I'm trying to use i...
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    DavidJameson
    8 years ago

    Sigh!

     

    (Edit: Sorry - couldn't resist creating the image.  In case nobody looked, the problem was because the button "Enable profiling" was off.   For me, coming from Mac, the tooltip was misleading. When I saw the tooltip  "Enable profiling", I assumed that meant that profiling WAS in fact enabled, and not that I needed to click it to enable profiling. 

AlexKaras's avatar
AlexKaras
Champion Level 3

Hi,

 

> the fact that the application was clearly running orders of magnitude more slowly

Yes, I remember this fact. :) But the message that zero routines were analyzed made me think initially that it may be something not in place with debug info as well, thus my questions and suggestions.

 

I think that it is a good idea to contact Support directly via the https://support.smartbear.com/message/?prod=AQtime form. They may ask you for some information and screenshots that you may not want to publish here.

If you decide to contact Support, I will appreciate it if you update here whether the problem was solved and what was its reason.

 

DavidJameson's avatar
DavidJameson
Occasional Contributor
8 years ago

Sigh!

 

(Edit: Sorry - couldn't resist creating the image.  In case nobody looked, the problem was because the button "Enable profiling" was off.   For me, coming from Mac, the tooltip was misleading. When I saw the tooltip  "Enable profiling", I assumed that meant that profiling WAS in fact enabled, and not that I needed to click it to enable profiling. 

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    AlexKaras
    Champion Level 3
    8 years ago

    Ah! My bad - had to think about this as well...

    Thank you a lot for the update!

     

    P.S.

    > When I saw the tooltip  "Enable profiling", [...]

    Hm-m-m... I will remember this for Mac...

    Been from the Windows world :), my expectation for the tooltip when profiling is enabled would be "Enabled profiling" or "Profiling enabled"...

    • DavidJameson's avatar
      DavidJameson
      Occasional Contributor
      8 years ago

      Another way to do it would be to make it more clear visually what are the two states. Normally, you can see if a button is pushed in or marked "on" but when it just changes its color a bit (or puts a bit of surrounding color), it's very hard to tell which way is on and which way is off. In our own GUIs we try to make this one very obvious through the use of switches

      • DerekMorin's avatar
        DerekMorin
        New Contributor
        6 years ago

        This burned me today too.  I probably wasted an hour.

        One good idea might be something like adding to the "Routines executed: 0" message.

        "Profiling was disabled for the entire run"