HC Music that should be on Runtime Revolution
J. Landman Gay
jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Tue Mar 17 17:26:56 EDT 2009
Colin Holgate wrote:
> I don't know about storing custom properties, but whatever that is,
> would it have any advantage over storing the data in a field?
Yes, a lot of advantages. One is speed, another is the ability to store
any kind of data including binary. Once you start using custom
properties you won't use fields any more for anything but visible text.
Accessing a custom property is faster than field access by some
magnitude, second only to script-local and global variables. Custom
properties can store whole files or applications, images, arrays,
SSL-encoded data, fonts, entire databases, almost anything you can think of.
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