Progress Bar

[Bob Sneidar]

Locking the screen can dramatically improve performance for anything which changes what you see in livecode. Progress bars are always changing due to animation. I had the same issue with animated gifs in my spinner standalone. 

Bob Sneidar
IT Manager
Calvary Chapel CM
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On Mar 29, 2012, at 16:36, Pete <pete at mollysrevenge.com> wrote:

> Thanks Scott and Richard.  I think I've got my algorithm to determine when
> to update the progress bar nicely tuned now.
> 
> I'm a little confused by the lock screen thing though.  Isn't lock screen
> for when you don't want screen changes to be seen?
> 
> Pete
> 
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Richard Gaskin
> <ambassador at fourthworld.com>wrote:
> 
>> Pete wrote:
>> 
>>> It takes about 2.5 times longer to process my test data with a
>>> progress bar than without one.
>> ...
>> 
>>> I calculate the update interval by dividing the number of records to
>>> be processed by 100 with a minimum of 10 to deal with small data
>>> sets.  I guess maybe I can play around with the divisor of 100 to
>>> see what yields the best blend of performance while still showing
>>> progress.
>> 
>> Yes, the longer interval between updates will help a lot.
>> 
>> This is true for all OSes, but even more so on the Mac with the rich
>> rendering required for the Aqua progress indicator.
>> 
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