Talk about major speed killer!

[Shari]

I've written the code five different ways looking to increase the 
speed, as it just crawled.

And each time it just got slower.

I found the culprit, and I do not understand it...

lock screen

Taking out that one line (it wasn't in a repeat loop or anything) 
increased the speed megafold.  I didn't particularly want the user to 
see what was going on, but given a choice between two evils, I'm 
choosing the increase in speed.

Definitely an area where Metacard differs from Hypercard!  I am used 
to locking the screen to speed things up, so that it doesn't have to 
redraw, and so the user doesn't have to see things they aren't meant 
to see.

t'any rate, it's zipping along nicely, and I can go to the next step. 
Continuing the bug testing phase :-)

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