Re: Viewing the size of stack elements (AKA, where have all the bytes gone?)

2006-05-24 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
At 6:33 PM +0100 5/23/2006, Ben Rubinstein wrote: The origin of all this is that I'm preparing to move an app that's always been monolithic to a splashscreen-standalone, self-updating one - and I'm trying to see how an earth it got so big! This is an app that I've been updating and refining fo

Re: Viewing the size of stack elements (AKA, where have all the bytes gone?)

2006-05-24 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Mark Wieder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > But... have you tried using Chipp Walters' altCleanStack first? I > usually end up getting rid of 50% or so of stuff I don't need. That sounds like a great first step (although I suspect there's much of my fat there, as well as Rev's) - I'm off to downl

Re: Viewing the size of stack elements (AKA, where have all the bytes gone?)

2006-05-23 Thread Dick Kriesel
On 5/23/06 10:33 AM, "Ben Rubinstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any suggestions, pointers, tools, warnings, etc gratefully received. When I want to find out how big an object is, I copy it, create a new stack, save it, paste into the new stack, save as some other name, and compare the file siz

Re: Viewing the size of stack elements (AKA, where have all the bytes gone?)

2006-05-23 Thread Tariel Gogoberidze
On May 23, 2006, at 18:33:57 +0100, Ben Rubinstein wrote: The kind of thing I'd like in an ideal world is something that would be able to tell me the number of bytes in an (uncompressed, unencrypted) stack file taken up by an object and then make it possible to drill down. So a stack file

Re: Viewing the size of stack elements (AKA, where have all the bytes gone?)

2006-05-23 Thread Mark Wieder
Ben- Tuesday, May 23, 2006, 10:33:57 AM, you wrote: > it transparent or cryptic? Is there a published description anywhere? (Also, > does anyone know what RunRev's attitude is to poking around - are they > relaxed, or likely to reach for the DCMA?) See the new 2.7 license agreement. My reading

Viewing the size of stack elements (AKA, where have all the bytes gone?)

2006-05-23 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Has anybody developed a tool - and to what extent is this possible - for viewing the size of objects in Rev stacks? It would be dandy if the application browser could reveal this information in a column. Do any of the alternative IDE or browsers (MetaCard, Constellation, ...) give access to