Going to next card

[Bob Sneidar]

I agree with Craig. This was discussed way back in the Revolution days. Peope were trying to migrate their old Hypercard stacks and discovered that their projects were much faster in Hypercard because the Revolution engine was optimised differently. Hypercard was written to optimize traversing cards. Livecode was not. Users were encouraged to have 1 card for a single function and then populate the fields accordingly. 

Bob S

> On May 12, 2026, at 1:26 PM, jbv via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Le 2026-05-12 16:01, Craig Newman via use-livecode a écrit :
> 
>> LC was never good at this, navigating either within a stack with many thousands of cards, or from card to card where each card is heavily populated. But what is odd is that I never changed the contents of either card, simply navigating back and forth and each time got a reliable 7 second transition time. How are you getting instantaneous navigation after fooling around with the data???
> 
> Hello Craig,
> 
> Actually, as I wrote before, right after updating the data on card 1, I get a 10 sec delays when going to card 2.
> Then, without changing anything, I get another 10 sec delay when going from card 2 back to card 1.
> Then without changing anything, I get another 10 sec delay when going from card 1 to card 2.
> But then, still without changing anything, going back and forth between the 2 cards becomes instaneous.
> 
> Unfortunately, when on card 1 (for example), if I send a new query and populate the fields with new data, then
> the delay is again 10 sec when going from card 1 to card 2. The whole process described above repeats itself,
> and after a couple of transtions back and forth, the delay disapears again and the transition is instantaneous.
> 
> I hope I made myself clear despite my poor english.
> 
> jbv
> 
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