Revolution is very slow to refresh fields. How can I speed it
up?
J. Landman Gay
jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Thu Mar 30 10:54:45 CST 2006
Eric Colvin wrote:
> I¹ve just started playing with Revolution. I was an enthusiast for Hypercard
> in a previous life.
>
> One thing I¹ve hit upon early on that frustrates me a little. Though
> Revolution is far newer, and ought to be faster since it loads into memory
> rather than writing to disk, I find it way slower at refreshing text fields
> than Hypercard ever was.
I assume you're on OS X. The problem you describe isn't Revolution's
fault, it is the operating system. This is from the What's New file:
> Issue: Rapid changes in stack windows may not be seen on OS X
> systems because of the way OS X buffers window contents.
>Workaround:
> Use a very short "wait" command after the change, then continue with
> the handler.
Revolution supports milliseconds, so your wait could be as little as:
wait 1 millisecond
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Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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