Speed of 'sliding a field' - PASTE BUG!

[Ian Summerfield]

Ah, I think I've just found what slows it down.  I think everyone who tried
it probably did what I did,  create a new stack, a new scrolling field, a
button for your script, and clicked the button.  We see a rect zoom open
(well, some bits of it).  I just found that if I put some text in the field
it takes longer, going from 26 ticks to 97 ticks.  That was just a few
lines.  How much text is in your field?   Does the text use lots of styles,
type faces?  Is the field locked, plain, scrolling, list?

Then I wondered what would happen if I put a LOT of text in the field.  I
typed:

"This is a test".

I selected all in the field and paste, paste, paste, about 10 times.  Select
all again, paste paste paste again.  Repeated this about 3 times, all the
time I'm pasting larger and larger amounts of data,  it soon grows.  After
very little time Revolution Unexpectedly quits.  It seems Revolution has a
bug limiting the either the paste amount or the field size.

OS X 10.1.3; Revolution 1.1.1b2.


On 3/4/02 8:24 am, "David Kwinter" <dk42 at mac.com> scribed:

> I've been frustrated by slowness lately whenever I've tried to make a
> Rev script do anything dynamic. Am I doing something wrong? I doubt my
> G4 lacks enough power to do some of the things I want to do. Here, for
> example is a chunk of script which slides a field into position. If you
> try it out let me know if you don't mind the choppyness. Is there a
> solution?
>