On Don, 2013-02-21 at 15:15 +0100, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: > On 2013-02-21 14:41, Roman Haefeli wrote: > > On Don, 2013-02-21 at 14:13 +0100, Charles Goyard wrote: > >> Hey, that works. But, as you may have guessed, it's awfully slow > >> with a "large" textfile (about 3kb). I guess it's just the > >> message box that's slow to update. > > > > Actually, message boxes are pretty fast. Try hiding it in a > > non-visible subpatch so that it is not hogging the CPU by updating > > the graphic representation. > > that's why i usually use [list] for these kind of operations. > though in reality it might be slower than an (invisible) msgbox.
BTW, it's dead easy to put this into an abstraction to avoid the GUI update issue: [inlet] | [ ( | [outlet] Roman _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list