slow loading & navigation to card containing large field

[David V Glasgow]

Hmmm.  Food for thought both!  

Loading I just use 

put URL ("file:" & theFilePath) into tdata

I have always assumed that reading as binary is only for data that isn’t  text.  I’ll try that. If I want to display some or all of the file in a field, do I need to process the data read as a binary, or can I just put it into a field?

So far I have worked on the principle that users should be able to see the effects of their searches, etc, so have defaulted to field.  Maybe I could store part of the list in the field (and swap in/out out as users scroll through) but do the main storage and heavy lifting within a custom property?

Thanks very much for the suggestions.

Cheers,

David G

> On 1 Jul 2020, at 5:15 pm, Klaus major-k via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi David
> 
>> Am 01.07.2020 um 18:10 schrieb Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
>> 
>> David V Glasgow wrote:
>> 
>>> Loading the plain text list of URLs from file is slowish, but more
>>> importantly, for some time gives no indication that the file is
>>> loading.
>> 
>> Are you reading the file as text or binary?
>> I would imagine reading as binary would be more efficient since it's a straight pull from disk, without the content alterations text-read does.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Richard Gaskin
> 
> and unless REALLY neccessary, store the data in a custom property instead of a field.
> 
> 
> Best
> 
> Klaus
> 
> --
> Klaus Major
> https://www.major-k.de
> klaus at major-k.de
> 
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