When does a Stack Actually Die in the IDE???

[Mark Smith]

Well, since

function stackIsOpen pLongID
   return (the short name of pLongID is among the lines of the  
openstacks)
end stackIsOpen

was, by my measurement, 4 times slower than

function stackIsOpen pLongID
   set the itemDelimiter to "/"
   return (char 1 to -6 of item -1 of pLongID) is among the lines of   
the openStack
end stackIsOpen

I wouldn't assume that the engines routines for getting short names  
etc, are going to be faster than string slicing.

I've no idea what kind of overhead there is in calling externals, and  
it'd have to be a pretty good external to beat Rev's string handling,  
I think...

Best,

Mark

On 18 Apr 2006, at 13:28, David Burgun wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was really just after some speed. The problem is that this quite  
> a common thing to want to do, you can do it, but it means parsing a  
> string, which although the solution provided by the wonderful  
> people on this list is pretty fast, it's still slow for doing  
> something like this, which seems pretty silly really since I assume  
> that this information would be almost instantly available in the  
> Engine. I was actually considering writing an External Command to  
> do this, but not sure how fast that would be and whether the  
> solutions provided thus far would be quicker. Any ideas???
>
> Thanks a lot
> All the Best
> Dave
>
> On 18 Apr 2006, at 13:18, Mark Smith wrote:
>
>> I see what you mean. Maybe what's needed is a library of functions  
>> to deal with this sort of thing.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> On 18 Apr 2006, at 10:34, David Burgun wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> The problem with that is if you have groups or nested groups, you  
>>> then have to loop thru until you find the card or stack.
>>>
>>> All the Best
>>> Dave
>>>
>>> On 15 Apr 2006, at 13:07, Mark Smith wrote:
>>>
>>>> Well, you could try using 'the owner of'. I haven't experimented  
>>>> with it much, so I don't know how flexible it is.
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>>
>>>> Mark
>>>> On 15 Apr 2006, at 12:54, David Burgun wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks a lot for this. One thing that has puzzled me is why you  
>>>>> can't access things like the stack or card of an object. For  
>>>>> instance why can't I just do this:
>>>>>
>>>>> put the short name of the  stack of the long id of me  into  
>>>>> myStackName
>>>>>
>>>>> or
>>>>>
>>>>> put the short name of the  card of the long id of me  myCardName
>>>>>
>>>>> Which would return the name of the stack/card that the object  
>>>>> resides in.
>>>>>
>>>>> It just seems like this ought to work, in fact when I found out  
>>>>> that RunRev didn't support this I was surprised!
>>>>>
>>>>> Any ideas why this isn't supported?
>>>>>
>>>>> All the Best
>>>>> Dave
>>>>>
>>>>> On 15 Apr 2006, at 02:33, J. Landman Gay wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Mark Smith wrote:
>>>>>> > I just had a doh! moment  in response to your <the short  
>>>>>> name of
>>>>>> > pStackLongID>, but then in order to see how much faster the  
>>>>>> engine  does
>>>>>> > this, I tested it the same way I tested my first tries  
>>>>>> (which  was
>>>>>> > actually with 10000 iterations, not 1000), and
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > function stackIsOpen pLongID
>>>>>> >   return (the short name of pLongID is among the lines of  
>>>>>> the openstacks)
>>>>>> > end stackIsOpen
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > takes nearly 600 ms!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Interesting. I never time these things enough. It looks like  
>>>>>> if a script needs to make repeated calls to the function, then  
>>>>>> your way would be preferable because of the speed increase.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It's been an interesting experiment, I like when the list does  
>>>>>> these things.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -- 
>>>>>> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>>>>>> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
>>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>>> use-revolution mailing list
>>>>>> use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
>>>>>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage  
>>>>>> your subscription preferences:
>>>>>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
>>>>>
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>> use-revolution mailing list
>>>>> use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
>>>>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your  
>>>>> subscription preferences:
>>>>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> use-revolution mailing list
>>>> use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
>>>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your  
>>>> subscription preferences:
>>>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> use-revolution mailing list
>>> use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
>>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your  
>>> subscription preferences:
>>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> use-revolution mailing list
>> use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your  
>> subscription preferences:
>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
>
> _______________________________________________
> use-revolution mailing list
> use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your  
> subscription preferences:
> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution