Re: Revolution much slower then Hypercard

2002-02-12 Thread Ian Summerfield
I made a few changes that make a huge difference. Mainly drag is much much much faster than click at on mouseUp select card image 1 delete card image 1 put 300 into XX put 300 into YY put 200 into RR choose brush tool set brush to 32 set brushcolor to "blue" put -((pi/

Re: Revolution much slower then Hypercard

2002-02-11 Thread yves COPPE
>At 7:59 PM -0800 2/10/02, Geoff Canyon wrote: >>Finally, pre-loading the data into an array variable instead was >>faster still (not counting the time to load the array): 9 ticks. > >At 9:02 PM -0800 2/10/02, Ken Norris (dialup) wrote: >>Yeow! These are some pretty impressive numbers. The tricks

Re: Revolution much slower then Hypercard

2002-02-11 Thread Shao Sean
for starters i'd probably store the result of 1.5*pi so it wouldn't have to do the calculation every loop through the repeat and maybe the addition into a variable too - Original Message - > on mouseUp > select card image 1 > delete card image 1 > put 300 into XX > put 300 into Y

Re: Revolution much slower then Hypercard

2002-02-11 Thread Nelson Zink
Ken, Can you speed this up? on mouseUp select card image 1 delete card image 1 put 300 into XX put 300 into YY put 200 into RR choose brush tool set brush to 32 set brushcolor to "blue" put -((pi/2)-(pi/584)) into Rad repeat until Rad>=1.5*pi click at XX+round(RR*cos (Rad

Re: Revolution much slower then Hypercard

2002-02-11 Thread Geoff Canyon
At 7:59 PM -0800 2/10/02, Geoff Canyon wrote: >Finally, pre-loading the data into an array variable instead was faster still (not >counting the time to load the array): 9 ticks. At 9:02 PM -0800 2/10/02, Ken Norris (dialup) wrote: >Yeow! These are some pretty impressive numbers. The tricks you

Re: Revolution much slower then Hypercard

2002-02-10 Thread yves COPPE
>Finally, pre-loading the data into an array variable instead was >faster still (not counting the time to load the array): 9 ticks. > >Using one of the built-in functions (Filter is my favorite) on a >pre-built data set would probably be even faster. > >regards, > >Geoff can you give an examp

Re: Revolution much slower then Hypercard

2002-02-10 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
on 2/10/02 7:59 PM, Geoff Canyon at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > But there's no need to actually go to the cards: > Using the form: fld "comments" of cd i of stack "revDocsLanguageReference" > took 90 ticks (1.5 seconds) > > Setting the defaultStack property and simply using fld "comments" of cd i

Re: Revolution much slower then Hypercard

2002-02-10 Thread Geoff Canyon
At 11:59 PM +0100 2/10/02, Pierre Delain wrote: >I find out with great surprise and disappointment that Revolution is much >slower then HyperCard. >I have a stack with 2163 cards, and a script containing the following loop : I love a challenge like this :-) I wrote a script similar to the one gi

Re: Revolution much slower then Hypercard

2002-02-10 Thread Ken Ray
IL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ - Original Message - From: "Pierre Delain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 4:59 PM Subject: Revolution much slower then Hypercard > I find out with great surprise and

Re: Revolution much slower then Hypercard

2002-02-10 Thread David Vaughan
Pierre I haven't noticed any significant speed difference in my own use. Not knowing how many cards you have or how much data in each field, I created 263 cards (via a script which created a card for each line of some text I grabbed, happening to be 263 lines) putting random chunks from each

Revolution much slower then Hypercard

2002-02-10 Thread Pierre Delain
I find out with great surprise and disappointment that Revolution is much slower then HyperCard. I have a stack with 2163 cards, and a script containing the following loop : repeat with CV = 1 to NBR go card CV if fld "ThProp" contains T or fld "proposition" contains ¬ T or fld "numer