I started having "wait" issues starting with 6.6.2 rc4. http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12508
Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: use-livecode [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Phil Davis Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2016 1:23 PM To: How to use LiveCode Subject: Re: card-to-card speed Does "lock recent" before going next have any effect on the speed? It used to. Phil Davis On 12/7/16 8:56 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > A friend of mine has an app where some animations are done by flipping > through cards. Speed is variable, set with a "wait <n> milliseconds" > statement, so the user can view the sequence as quickly or slowly as > desired. > > In versions up through 6.x the speed was quite good, but in v7, 8, and > 9 the speed drops below acceptability. > > We did some tests and oddly enough the problem doesn't seem to be with > card rendering: when we comment out the "wait" statement speed is > pretty good. It's maybe a tad slower perceptibly, but still good > enough for the animation to be viewed meaningfully. > > But "wait 1 millisecons" or even "wait 0 milliseconds" takes FAR > longer in recent versions than in v6. > > He has no "...with messages" clause, so any extra time needed for the > event loop should not be a factor. > > Something seems amiss with the "wait" command itself. > > He's sending me his stack file so I can winnow it down to a good test > case, but in the meantime I wanted to ask here: > > Have any of you seen unusual delay with "wait" statements in versions > later than v6? > -- Phil Davis _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
