Re: Loading large files into browser widget
Placing the browser widget in a background group and display/hide as needed is a possible solution to have it retain content. Thanks, Brian On Jun 29, 2019, 6:40 PM -0400, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode , wrote: > I have a 10-meg file on disk that I display in a browser widget. It is > heavily tagged and styled. It takes a few seconds to load fully on > desktop in the IDE, but on Android it can take up to 30 seconds or more > to display an internal link, and even then the whole file isn't loaded, > only a portion containing the linked text. If you scroll up or down, > there are blank sections above and below the visible portion which only > show the background color. > > Every time the card closes, the widget dumps the content and the next > time you go to the card the whole process starts over again. I need a > way to force the widget to retain its content, or a faster way to load > the file. > > If that's not possible then we'll have to break up the file into pieces, > but that is going to be difficult to script for a number of reasons. Any > suggestions? Would the older native browser be any faster? > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > ___ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Loading large files into browser widget
I'll experiment with it. The browser is in a stack that loads dynamically on demand so it isn't always visible (though it does stay in RAM) so I hope that isn't a problem. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com On June 29, 2019 6:29:56 PM Brian Milby via use-livecode wrote: Placing the browser widget in a background group and display/hide as needed is a possible solution to have it retain content. Thanks, Brian On Jun 29, 2019, 6:40 PM -0400, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode , wrote: I have a 10-meg file on disk that I display in a browser widget. It is heavily tagged and styled. It takes a few seconds to load fully on desktop in the IDE, but on Android it can take up to 30 seconds or more to display an internal link, and even then the whole file isn't loaded, only a portion containing the linked text. If you scroll up or down, there are blank sections above and below the visible portion which only show the background color. Every time the card closes, the widget dumps the content and the next time you go to the card the whole process starts over again. I need a way to force the widget to retain its content, or a faster way to load the file. If that's not possible then we'll have to break up the file into pieces, but that is going to be difficult to script for a number of reasons. Any suggestions? Would the older native browser be any faster? -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Loading large files into browser widget
I did some timing tests comparing mobileControlCreate vs. a browser widget. Both loaded a 10-meg file from the documents folder on an Android Pixel running Android OS 9 (Pie.) mobileControlCreate: 26352 ms, 26610 ms (2 tries) browser widget: 785426 ms (13 minutes). While 26+ seconds is too long, it's better than 13 minutes. I don't see a good way around this. Pre-loading the widget in its entirety isn't feasible, and of course I'd need to delete the dynamic mobile control when leaving the card to avoid interference with other native controls. Breaking up this particular document is going to be difficult. All the links are hashtags that refer to the current document, and there are thousands of them. However, I've learned that if the widget browser needs to load quicker, use mobileControlCreate instead of the widget. On 6/29/19 6:26 PM, Brian Milby via use-livecode wrote: Placing the browser widget in a background group and display/hide as needed is a possible solution to have it retain content. Thanks, Brian On Jun 29, 2019, 6:40 PM -0400, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode , wrote: I have a 10-meg file on disk that I display in a browser widget. It is heavily tagged and styled. It takes a few seconds to load fully on desktop in the IDE, but on Android it can take up to 30 seconds or more to display an internal link, and even then the whole file isn't loaded, only a portion containing the linked text. If you scroll up or down, there are blank sections above and below the visible portion which only show the background color. Every time the card closes, the widget dumps the content and the next time you go to the card the whole process starts over again. I need a way to force the widget to retain its content, or a faster way to load the file. If that's not possible then we'll have to break up the file into pieces, but that is going to be difficult to script for a number of reasons. Any suggestions? Would the older native browser be any faster? -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Loading large files into browser widget
I was wrong. I do get "browserFinishedLoading" in about 26 seconds, but it's lying. When I start to scroll down, it acts just like the widget. It isn't really all there. I guess that makes sense, assuming the widget is just a wrapper around the mobileControlCreate code. On 6/30/19 4:37 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: I did some timing tests comparing mobileControlCreate vs. a browser widget. Both loaded a 10-meg file from the documents folder on an Android Pixel running Android OS 9 (Pie.) mobileControlCreate: 26352 ms, 26610 ms (2 tries) browser widget: 785426 ms (13 minutes). While 26+ seconds is too long, it's better than 13 minutes. I don't see a good way around this. Pre-loading the widget in its entirety isn't feasible, and of course I'd need to delete the dynamic mobile control when leaving the card to avoid interference with other native controls. Breaking up this particular document is going to be difficult. All the links are hashtags that refer to the current document, and there are thousands of them. However, I've learned that if the widget browser needs to load quicker, use mobileControlCreate instead of the widget. On 6/29/19 6:26 PM, Brian Milby via use-livecode wrote: Placing the browser widget in a background group and display/hide as needed is a possible solution to have it retain content. Thanks, Brian On Jun 29, 2019, 6:40 PM -0400, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode , wrote: I have a 10-meg file on disk that I display in a browser widget. It is heavily tagged and styled. It takes a few seconds to load fully on desktop in the IDE, but on Android it can take up to 30 seconds or more to display an internal link, and even then the whole file isn't loaded, only a portion containing the linked text. If you scroll up or down, there are blank sections above and below the visible portion which only show the background color. Every time the card closes, the widget dumps the content and the next time you go to the card the whole process starts over again. I need a way to force the widget to retain its content, or a faster way to load the file. If that's not possible then we'll have to break up the file into pieces, but that is going to be difficult to script for a number of reasons. Any suggestions? Would the older native browser be any faster? -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Loading large files into browser widget
Curious: how long does it take to load the document in Chrome on the same device? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web ambassa...@fourthworld.comhttp://www.FourthWorld.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Loading large files into browser widget
On 7/1/19 11:47 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: Curious: how long does it take to load the document in Chrome on the same device? Didn't get a moment to check until now. I had to count in my head, but it's about 4-5 seconds in Firefox. Maybe 8-10 seconds in Chrome. 13 minutes in Chrome on my Pixel. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
