I need advise on slow start standalone

[Rick Harrison]

Hi William,

Use variables instead of fields when at all possible.
You will find that your executable code will pick up
in speed.

If you are just afraid users will think the stack has
crashed, use a progress bar to tell them when everything
has finished loading.  For some weird reason progress bars
make some people a little more patient.

Other than that, try displays and timers in your code to
see which sections are taking the longest to load.  Then
look at the code to see if there is a more efficient way
of accomplishing the same tasks.

Good luck!

Rick

On Mar 5, 2011, at 9:40 AM, William de Smet wrote:

> Hi there all,
> 
> I have a educational standalone which start very slow on OSX and Win 7 (20 sec or longer).The stack has 180 cards and its size is 80 MB. The standalone however is only 8 MB but uses 150 MB of RAM. I know all cards are put into memory on startup.
> 
> Is there a way to speed things up? I already set the 'DontUseQT' to true.
> I could put all cards as seperate stacks in a folder and call them when needed. 
> So only then they are put in memory, right?
> But this is a lot of work :-( 
> 
> In addition to this: If I use seperate stacks how do I make sure the individual stacks are not opened in the IDE and used? I know I can password protect them but I don't want them to open at all. 
> 
> All your advise is welcome!!
> 
> greetings,
> 
> William
> 
> 
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