Frame-based animation

[Bob Sneidar]

Right. Code that is executed in a DO command is compiled each time and so will take much longer to execute. 

Bob


On Feb 11, 2012, at 10:33 AM, Ken Corey wrote:

> On 11/02/2012 17:53, Richard MacLemale wrote:
>> Well, I know one thing - trying to put script steps in an array and run it on the iPad 1 is NOT a winning idea.  It's taking 163 milliseconds to execute two lines of code that way.  My window is more like 33 milliseconds.  Back to the old drawing board, as they say...
> 
> I don't know what the engine does to the code...the code might be "compiled" (I use that term loosely) down, where evaluated code isn't.
> 
> Hrm...can you abstract each little script enough to make little commands?
> 
> on appearFlower
>   set the loc of image "flower" to 400,401
>   set the height of image "flower" to 150
>   set the width of image "flower" to 150
> end appearFlower
> 
> in frame 30:
>  appearFlower
> 
> 
> Does that help?
> 
> -Ken
> 
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