Sudden slowdown... - solved - but why?

[Doug Lerner]

On 1/27/04 10:26 AM, "Alex Rice" <alex at mindlube.com> wrote:

> 
> 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?

No. Never. 

> 
> 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.

Good idea. I'll try that if it comes up again. In the meantime, I'm just
logging a lot less stuff there! :)

doug