[MWForum]EX vs Pro

[Jeff Knope]

Wendy wrote:

Hi, I was wondering if some of you who've tried the new MW EX would
share your impressions with us.  It has been brought to my attention
that EX runs moderately to considerably slower than MW 2.0 or MW Pro.
Has this been a problem for any of you?  What do you think of the MW
EX environment? support materials? user-friendliness?  Do you
recommend that MW lovers switch over to EX or do you have any
reservations?

I have downloaded the demo version EX.  I don't know if it should perform
the same as the purchased version or not.  And I'm sure others can benchmark
better than I.

What I did notice is loading a Project was significantly slower.  A 2.04 mb
Project file that loads in Pro in 4 secs (+/-), requires 9 secs (+/-) with
the demo EX.  I notice the EX Demo folder does not have its own Projects
file, and is referencing Pro's when it loads this file.  This may account
for the difference (?).

Another difference I notice is when the toolbar is disabled, the portion of
screen that was occupied by it becomes added to the menu bar above, instead
of the project display area below, thus reducing the usable amount of screen
in this mode.  One result is projects written for Pro in this mode (sans
toolbar) lose some of  their screen image along the bottom of the display.

On the plus side, I'm really looking forward to being able to create
drop-down menus.  And robotics!!!  Too cool.

-Jeff