Any thoughts on speed limitations of Revlet?

[stephen barncard]

Jim, that's URL encoding.   %20 is hex 20, ascii space. There are spaces in
the filename.

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Stephen Barncard
San Francisco
http://barncard.com


2009/7/25 James Hurley <jhurley0305 at sbcglobal.net>

>
>  > P.S. The stack I tried was "RainbowTest.rev" and if you are interested
>>> you  can see it in action by running the line below in the message box. And
>>> if  you have Rev 4.0 you can create your own test by saving it for the web.
>>>  go url "http://www.jamesphurley.com/RainbowTest.rev"
>>>  Not only does the "mouseMove" handler run lethargically, but the image
>>> (a  flashlight, or up in Scotland, a torch) carrying that script breaks up
>>> on  the screen, i.e. the image breaks up into two separate parts. Odd.
>>>
>>  I tested your stack Jim. It was very interesting as it worked at full
>> speed when running in the browser but from the files on my desktop. When I
>> uploaded the revlet & it's html file to my web server <
>> http://troz.on-rev.com/rainbow/test.html>, it ran as described.
>> Interestingly, the "Draw bunches" script runs fine, it seems to be dragging
>> the torch around that causes the delay. This may be an optimization thing
>> that will be improved as the plugin develops, or it may be that mouseMoves
>> need to be handled differently.
>>  Cheers, Sarah
>>
>
> Thanks Sarah. Your feed back was very helpful. I confess that when I ran
> the stack I posted to you I got the same results you did--and not the same
> as I obtained earlier when I ran the full stack from which I extracted the
> bit I posted.
>
> Just to isolate the  issue of the graphic display, I tried a very simple
> stack: A single image (my barn last winter) with a MouseMove handler.
>
> go url "http://www.jamesphurley.com/MoveGraphicTest.rev"
>
> When I drag this image around the screen (running in Safari from the file
> on my desktop) I found the motion to be rather bumpy, not nearly as smooth
> as when running in desktop RunRev. It is tolerable, but bumpy. As you say,
> this may be something that needs tweaking as the plug in evolves.
>
> I haven't tried uploading it to the my web server. Not sure how to proceed
> to the next step. The url in Safari looks like this:
>
> file:///Rev%20apps%20on%20web/Untitled%201/test.html
>
> I never have figured out what character the  %20 is a substitution for.
> Little help? How would I proceed from this Safari rendition to posting it to
> my on-rev web site for a test?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim Hurley
>
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