Any thoughts on speed limitations of Revlet?

[James Hurley]

>
>>> > 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

And a second thought. Maybe it is a Mac thing. There has been a  
longstanding display problem on the Mac in which it is necessary to  
force a screen refresh when performing a sequence of steps using  
either a "wait 0 millisec" or "unlock screen"

Jim