teleprompter application- reverse text, smooth scrolling?

Josh Mellicker josh at dvcreators.net
Thu Jun 22 21:38:12 EDT 2006


Hi Mark,

Sorry, forgot to mention this is what I'm doing, but the movement is  
jittery as you can imagine.

I believe the slowness is not the loop structure, but instead, the  
scrolling of the field itself.

It is fine for now, thanks!

Josh


On Jun 22, 2006, at 6:30 PM, Mark Smith wrote:

> Josh, you could try scrolling in larger steps:
>
> repeat with v =  1 to 300 step 5
>   set the vScroll of fld "operatorText" to v
> end repeat
>
> and see how badly (if at all) it affects the smoothness.
>
> Best,
>
> Mark
>
> On 22 Jun 2006, at 23:35, Josh Mellicker wrote:
>
>> This script:
>>
>>     repeat with v = 1 to 300
>>         set the vScroll of fld "operatorText" to v
>>     end repeat
>>
>> scrolls a field up, but is too slow... any way to speed a loop up?
>>
>>
>> I have also tried
>>
>> ON keepPrompting
>>     set the vScroll of fld "promptText" to the vScroll of fld  
>> "promptText" + 1
>>     send keepPrompting to me in 0 milliseconds
>> END keepPrompting
>>
>> which seems about as slow...
>>
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>>
>> (these are not actual scripts, but tests... the app varies scroll  
>> speed with a mouse scroll wheel)
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