Speeding the transition between cards

[Bob Sneidar]

Do you think this is a load into memory problem? Maybe caching the cards will help, if it's not too much. Does the problem occur every time or just the first time you load a card? If it's just the first time, then maybe you could go to every card on startup with the screen locked to load everything into memory. You could also trap on idle and reference each card in sequence (doesn't that load the entire card into memory?)

Just shooting in the dark here. 

Bob


On Mar 8, 2011, at 3:55 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:

> Recently, Eric Peyron wrote:
> 
>> I am creating my first eComic Livecode App, and I have a little problem I
>> can't seem to solve: the more objects/scripts on cards, the slower the
>> transition between these cards. I know there are ways to speed things up by
>> locking the screen, and I have tried to add "lock screen" in the "Next card"
>> buttons' scripts, but it doesn't speed things up. Does anyone have an idea
>> about how to accelerate the transition?
> 
> Can you provide any more information here?  There's not really much to go
> on.  The number of objects on card could conceivably slow things down if
> you're talking hundreds, but number of scripts really shouldn't affect
> anything unless you're activating a bunch of scripts simultaneously.  If
> you're initializing things when opening a card, that could cause a bottle
> neck -- try initializing within a preOpenCard card handler instead of within
> openCard.
> 
> It's hard to tell, but from what you describe, you *might* get better
> results by doing this:
> Lock screen -> go next card -> unlock screen [with visual effect ]
> 
> FWIW, I've found you can sometimes trim a few extra millisecs off processing
> by explicitly calling "unlock screen" at the end of handler that locks the
> screen, rather than waiting for the handler to exit on its own.  But if
> you're using visual effects, you're already doing this.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
> Tactile Media, UX Design
> 
> 
> 
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