Jerry, that simple tweak worked to improve the performance of the UI a great deal...... its a slower method of loading...........but not too slow to use as background loading. ...Its actually better than what I expected. Awesome. I always love to use the forever loop..... its just so fun to write. lol I gotta get some error handling in there but thats another story. Consider this one SOLVED. Thanks again.
On Sat, Aug 3, 2019 at 10:47 PM Tom Glod <t...@makeshyft.com> wrote: > Dar, Yes...I understand.....it is a blocking operation no matter what I > can just introduce breaks in the blockiness. So I'm not expecting a socket > like experience for sure. > > Those are very good suggestions to try.... thank you. > > Jerry, I will give that a try, it looks promising.....even a little > improvement would be better and sufficient for this need, and I can use it > sparingly. Thanks alot! Onward indeed. > > On Sat, Aug 3, 2019 at 10:36 PM Jerry Jensen via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > >> Hi Tom, >> >> I’ve done this in the past watching it instead of the result. I seem to >> remember eof was not useful. Maybe for a serial port it would be? >> >> As in: >> >> repeat forever >> read from file ThisFile for (1024 * 1000) bytes >> if it is empty then exit repeat >> — do your stuff >> wait 0 with messages >> end repeat >> >> Onward, >> .Jerry non-sphere (tetrahedron?) >> >> It was a long time ago in, I think, LC 5, so YMMV. >> >> >> > On Aug 3, 2019, at 5:56 PM, Tom Glod via use-livecode < >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >> > >> > Hey folks, >> > >> > I'm having trouble finding a combination of settings that allows my file >> > loading to seem to happen in the background. >> > >> > repeat while read_result is not "eof" >> > read from file ThisFile for (1024 * 1000) bytes >> > put the result into read_result >> > put it after IntoThisVariable >> > add length(it) to amount_read >> > TSTProgress amount_read,ExpectedSize,"%","Loading File ..." >> > (Progress Indicator Handler) >> > wait 10 milliseconds with messages >> > end repeat >> > >> > no matter what I try, its still sluggish, and it seems like messages are >> > still accumilating instead of being processed by the engine. >> > >> > Am I missing something? Normally waiting with messages sufficiently >> frees >> > the engine to allow the UI to remain responsive. >> > >> > Thanks, >> > >> > Tom >> > _______________________________________________ >> > 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