Response generation gets paused, when shifting the focus off the AIChat

[whisper-ai-team]

• whenever we are shifting the focus or going away from the tab where the response generation is in progress the answer generation gets paused
• Is there any prop or feature to disable this behaviour, i want the response to be generated irrespective of the focus
• can you please help me with this query?

[salmenus]

Hi @whisper-ai-team

You're seeing that "pause" because we use the web API requestAnimationFrame to perform the text animation.

The advantage of using requestAnimationFrame is that the text appearance animation is faster, and can even be hardware-accelerated if you have a GPU, etc.

The downside is that some browsers (like Chrome) would pause animation when the tab or window is not displayed, which means that your generated text's animation will also pause when the tab is not active.

Here is what I suggest:

• Currently there is a config parameter at nlux that allows you to configure the animation speed:
  https://nlux.dev/api/ui/ai-chat#conversation-options
  Default is 10, but if you set it to null or 0 it will make the animation slightly faster (but it won't stop).

• Or if you would like an option to completely remove the animation, we can probably do that, but it's little low on priorities list (unless other developers also request it). Please raise an issue as feature request.

• Alternatively, you can code it yourself: That requestAnimationFrame call is happening here:
  https://github.com/nluxai/nlux/blob/latest/packages/js/core/src/x/domOp.ts
  If you simply change it with setTimeout(op, 0), your problem will be solved, but I cannot publish as a default that as it's not optimal. If you're interested to contribute, you can create a pull request where you add a config parameter to allow users to choose between requestAnimationFrame and setTimeout, with requestAnimationFrame being the default. Make sure you add tests to cover that case as well.

PS: Why you're calling yourself whisper-ai-team ? Do you work for a company called Whisper that does AI ? Or just want some people to think that you're part of OpenAI's speech recognition Team ?

Thank you for the feedback and for contributing to nlux
I really appreciate
Salmen

[whisper-ai-team]

Hi @salmenus , thank you for the detailed response

however when i tried the last option of using setTImeout instead of requestAnimationFrame, its not really helping in resolving the issue, can you please help me and guide on this.

[salmenus]

Marking this as answered ✔️ — Feel free to re-open / comment if further help is needed.