Xara extremely slow when moving many Paypal buttons

It takes minutes for Xara Web Designer ver 12 to move a lot of items on a page when the page contains Paypal buttons.
If there is a way around this please let me know, if not something needs to be done.
I often have to slide things up or down on a page when inserting new things. I select all the elements and then move it down. When there are Paypal button in the selected items (lets say 20 buttons) it takes Xara a minute to move the items. That's a long time when you are trying to adust the position of these elements on the page.

I've just create 50 PayPal buttons on a design page. selected all and click-dragged to anew position. All buttons and objects displayed and rendered fully during the drag, which was instantaneous.

Perhaps you could upload your design file (XAR / WEB)?

Acorn

There is no delay during the drag. The long delay is after letting go.

Paul

It seems sometimes when moving widgets Xara thinks they have been resized. It then re-generates the on page representation of the widget, and this can take a very long time, especially when external web addresses have to be evaluated.
The only way to avoid this is to disable the "re-generate placeholder image automatically" option in the placeholder tab of the web properties for the widgets.

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Originally Posted by siran

It seems sometimes when moving widgets Xara thinks they have been resized. It then re-generates the on page representation of the widget, and this can take a very long time, especially when external web addresses have to be evaluated.
The only way to avoid this is to disable the "re-generate placeholder image automatically" option in the placeholder tab of the web properties for the widgets.

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Thanks siran, that's an old trick I used way back and never thought to suggest it as re-generate placeholder image automatically is always unticked for me.

Acorn