Sudden slowdown... - solved - but why?

[Alex Rice]

On Jan 26, 2004, at 6:13 PM, Doug Lerner wrote:

> I figured out the cause. I had been logging stuff into a field in a
> particular substack and had been saving that substack too. I cleared 
> out the
> field and it sped up again.
>
> But...why would the presence of a field with a few million characters 
> in it
> slow down the interaction of the entire application?

Just a guess: is it possible that field is getting the keyboard focus 
ever?

nonetheless, field access is slow compared to variables, arrays and 
custom properties. Maybe use a custom property and put into the fld 
only when display is required.

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Alex Rice | Mindlube Software | http://mindlube.com