Hi Richard,
I've found the 'repeat for each' structure, the first one below, to be
incredibly faster than the second and third ones below since it doesn't
have to count returns or spaces to get to lines and words. For
example, in the second repeat loop I believe the second line 'put line
cline of s into curline' is going to take a long time to count all
those return characters in long scripts, so I believe replacing the
'repeat while...' structure with another 'repeat for each line'
structure would speed things up substantially. In the third repeat
loop there's a similar situation with the 'repeat with curword...'
structure. Here a 'repeat for each word...' structure might speed
things up substantially, also. Of course, in each of these
replacements you'll have to add 1 to a variable for each repetition in
the loop so you know where you are, but that's just math which isn't
going to slow anything down.
Hope this helps,
Ray Horsley
Developer, LinkIt! Software
On Apr 25, 2006, at 7:00 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Anyone have ideas on how to speed up MC's script colorizing?
Here's the handler from the card script of the Script Editor stack:
on colorizescript
if tokencolors["if"] is empty then setupcolors
local s
put field "Editor Field" into s
put s into field "Editor Field"
go to card 2
local curword
put 1 into curword
repeat for each word w in s
if tokencolors[w] is not empty
then set the textColor of word curword of field "Editor Field" of
card 1 to tokencolors[w]
add 1 to curword
end repeat
local oldline, cline, curline, nwords
put min(lineoffset("#", s), lineoffset("--", s)) into oldline
put 0 into cline
repeat while oldline is not 0
add oldline to cline
put line cline of s into curline
put the number of words in curline into nwords
repeat with curword = 1 to nwords
if char 1 of word curword of curline is "#" or char 1 to 2 of
word curword of curline is "--" then
set the textColor of word curword to nwords of line cline of
field "Editor Field" of card 1 to "DarkOrchid4"
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
put min(lineoffset("#", s, cline), lineoffset("--", s, cline))
into oldline
end repeat
go to card 1
unlock screen
end colorizescript
On short scripts it's fine, but run it on lengthy ones like libURL and
it takes some time.
Any suggestions welcome...
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Media Corporation
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