FYI: writing to and reading from fields much faster than locals, globals or custom properties

[Jim Bufalini]

BTW, it's the *with messages* that is important. Also, your use of *callback
loop* is interesting. A callback is a handler that is triggered when a
callback event occurs, much like a mouseUp handler is triggered on a mouseUp
event. It's never in a repeat loop.

Aloha from Hawaii,

Jim Bufalini

> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-revolution-
> bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Jim Bufalini
> Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 4:56 PM
> To: 'How to use Revolution'
> Subject: RE: FYI: writing to and reading from fields much faster than
> locals, globals or custom properties
> 
> Josh Mellicker wrote:
> 
> > What we found was that when writing and reading a custom property, or
> a
> > variable, in a 1 ms loop, other stack windows became "sluggish" -
> very
> > difficult to drag by the header bar, very difficult to click buttons
> > on, rollover states sticking.
> 
> Ahhh...Now THIS makes sense. Your repeat loop is so tight that the GUI
> becomes unresponsive. It has nothing to do with the actual speed of
> variables vs. fields. Please add, somewhere in your repeat loop:
> 
> wait 0 milliseconds with messages
> 
> > When we replaced with writing to and reading a text field on a
> substack
> > (still 1ms), the other windows responded perfectly normally, you
> could
> > drag and click just like no callback loop was running.
> 
> Yes, because here other handlers are starting and stopping and this
> gives
> the engine opportunity to intervene.
> 
> > So I just ASSUMED the field was "faster". Maybe the truth is that
> > custom properties , although faster, somehow interfere with normal
> > mouse-related processes... or maybe what we found was just specific
> to
> > our app, although I don't see how that could be.
> 
> It's the repeat loop itself without any wait or other handlers being
> called.
> 
> > Anyway, I will do some more tests as soon as I can. I just wanted to
> > post, in case someone noticed "sluggishness" in an app with a fast
> > callback loop, my advice is, try fields and see if that fixes it - it
> > did for us!
> 
> Just add the wait into your repeat loop with vars or custom props and
> you
> will see it is even faster than fields. ;-)
> 
> Aloha from Hawaii,
> 
> Jim Bufalini
> 
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