LiveResize in 6.7.3 and 7.0.3

[J. Landman Gay]

On 3/10/2015 2:08 PM, Terence Heaford wrote:
> I want to resize the chart as the user drags the window but both
> 6.7.3 and 7.0.3 stutter quite badly under the strain of rebuilding
> the chart.
> 7.0.3 is obviously worse then 6.7.3 at doing this.
>
> I am looking for ideas on a better way of doing this?
...
> One immediate area for improvement might be the delete routine which is:
>
> on deleteChart
>       lock screen
>       repeat for each line tID in the childControlIDs of me
>             delete control id tID of me
>       end repeat
>       unlock screen
> end deleteChart
>
> Is there a call that will delete all the items at once rather than
> having to iterate through the childControlIDs?

Besides locking the screen, also lock messages. I'd avoid 
deleting/recreating everything too, it would be better to just resize 
the existing controls, which is much faster. If that isn't possible for 
some reason, group as many child controls as possible and delete whole 
groups.

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