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The Performance group of the Options pane (  Tools   Options  ) enables you to modify settings to improve Storyboard rendering and performance.

The Performance group contains the following items:

Item

Description

Enable automatic scrolling

Automatically scrolls the Design board when you drag an element outside of the visible area, in the direction that you drag the element.

Show tooltips

Shows tooltips on Design board elements when the mouse pointer hovers over them, for example, tooltips for names of elements, names of element ports, and other element items such as Transition from here and Add step.

Highlight containers

Changes the color of containers when dragging elements over them on the Design board, indicating where you can drop the element to place it in the container.

Highlight shapes

Changes the color of elements on the Design board when the mouse pointer moves over them, indicating where you can click to select them.

Enable transparency effects

Makes elements on the Design board transparent when you drag them over other elements, so you can still see the element that is underneath the element that you are dragging.

Enable component cache

Enables you to specify custom settings for the component cache. If you do not select this option, components are added continuously to the cache and are not discarded.

Cache algorithm

Algorithm that decides which items to remove from the cache when it is full:

  • LFU: (Least Frequently Used) Counts how often a component is used, and discards the components that are used least often first from the cache.

  • LRU: (Least Recently Used) Keeps track of which components were used when, and discards the least recently used components first from the cache.

Cache size

Number of components to store in the cache.

Cache reduction

Percentage by which to reduce the size of the cache when the maximum Cache size is reached. For example, if you define a Cache size of 20, and a Cache reduction of 20%, when the cache reaches 20 components the specified algorithm is used to discard four of the components from the cache.