Making "read from file" less blocky.

[Dar Scott Consulting]

I love "really out there".  I wanna play.

At the start of any solution, try this. It might speed up any method but would take some time at the start.

get shell( "cat " & ThisFile & " > dev/null" )

I think that is likely to pre-load the system file buffers for you. 

If one is feeling adventurous, one can try open process (cat) to avoid the wait; it will probably move through the file faster than the script and sectors will already be loaded when you ask for them.

Dar

> On Aug 4, 2019, at 7:59 AM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> OK, here's a "really out there" suggestion ....
> 
> 1. Run a local web server  to serve files (locally only).
> 
>      Can be done various ways, including (easily) via LC and the httpd library,
> 
>         (build that server as a standalone and have it running - started from your app if need be...)
> 
> 2. in your stack, just do
> 
>   load url ("http://localhost:8080/myfilename") with message "mycallback"
> 
> and handle the file once it has been read in the "mycallback" handler
> 
> -- Alex.
> 
> 
> On 04/08/2019 01:56, Tom Glod via use-livecode wrote:
>> Hey folks,
>> 
>> I'm having trouble finding a combination of settings that allows my file
>> loading  to seem to happen in the background.
>> 
>>   repeat while read_result is not "eof"
>>          read from file ThisFile for (1024 * 1000) bytes
>>          put the result into read_result
>>          put it after IntoThisVariable
>>          add length(it) to amount_read
>>          TSTProgress amount_read,ExpectedSize,"%","Loading File ..."
>> (Progress Indicator Handler)
>>          wait 10 milliseconds with messages
>>       end repeat
>> 
>> no matter what I try, its still sluggish, and it seems like messages are
>> still accumilating instead of being processed by the engine.
>> 
>> Am I missing something?  Normally waiting with messages sufficiently frees
>> the engine to allow the UI to remain responsive.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Tom
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