Hey guys! I've been developing a very complicated .asp/javascript web app in Dreamweaver MX 2004 for my employer - and it's currently got about 2000 lines of code in it. Dreamweaver, which us normally very stable and responsive on my machine, really chugs along when i try to do anything to this document. I've had to switch over to homesite to edit/add/modify code because dreamweaver is so unresponsive when i have this document open, it is virtually impossible to get anything done. Has anyone else had this issue with working with large html/asp/whatever extension files in dreamweaver, and come up with an adequate work-around? I feel like my code is pretty condensed, it's just a very complicated web app. they have a very specific way they would like the form to behave, i.e. different form elements appearing and disappering based on user input, which has taken me alot of CSS and javascript to enable, and they've also got the form pulling data from about 5 different complex tables... so i'm not sure condensing my code is an option. believe me i've tried. Any suggestions? Thanks!
I've had stability issues too with big huge files in Dreamweaver. But in your case 2000 lines of code in one file is bad design. I'm sorry to tell you but, you should really think about moving code in separate files. It can be your app needs 2000 lines of code, in fact that's not so special, but you should make a better design and seperate stuff in different files. Not only it works better, but it solves your problems. However, you choose the way you work yourself of course. I'm only trying to help you
i appreciate that - and i did in fact split my file up into several different pieces several weeks ago. didnt help the issue i was having however... but what did fix it is completely uninstalling my copy of dreamweaver and re-installing it. works fine now, but thank you for your suggestions. VG