FYI: writing to and reading from fields much faster than locals, globals or custom properties

[Josh Mellicker]

> You should also fit some lock/unlock screen into your testing to see how
> that affects your loop/s and processing speed.

Will do, thanks Scott!



On Feb 19, 2010, at 6:35 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:

> Recently, Josh Mellicker wrote:
> 
>> What we found was that when writing and reading a custom property, or a
>> variable, in a 1 ms loop, other stack windows became "sluggish" - very
>> difficult to drag by the header bar, very difficult to click buttons on,
>> rollover states sticking.
>> 
>> When we replaced with writing to and reading a text field on a substack (still
>> 1ms), the other windows responded perfectly normally, you could drag and click
>> just like no callback loop was running.
>> 
>> So I just ASSUMED the field was "faster". Maybe the truth is that custom
>> properties , although faster, somehow interfere with normal mouse-related
>> processes... or maybe what we found was just specific to our app, although I
>> don't see how that could be.
>> 
>> Anyway, I will do some more tests as soon as I can. I just wanted to post, in
>> case someone noticed "sluggishness" in an app with a fast callback loop, my
>> advice is, try fields and see if that fixes it - it did for us!
> 
> Do you have any custom drag routines in your stack/s?  Do you update any
> kind of output while the loop is running?
> 
> My guess is your repeat loop is so tight that the writing to the field
> causes a screen update which slows the repeat loop and allows other events
> such as window dragging to take place.  In my experience, a repeat loop will
> only usually down events when updating the screen repeatedly.
> 
> You should also fit some lock/unlock screen into your testing to see how
> that affects your loop/s and processing speed.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
> Tactile Media, UX Design
> 
> 
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