5000 lines of code

[Richmond Mathewson]

On 06/05/2011 10:03 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
> Richmond-
>
> Sunday, June 5, 2011, 8:13:27 AM, you wrote:
>
>> If anybody really cares here is a PDF of the code in
>> ONE object in my Devawriter Pro: read it and weep . . .  :)
> That may be the longest mouseUp handler / switch statement I've ever
> seen<g>
>
> A few suggestions:
>
> I'm not sure if it will make a difference in a mouseUp handler since
> you're limited by mouse movements, but you might want to lock the
> screen before and unlock it at the end since you're dealing with field
> contents directly. This will especially speed up your "do" command and
> updating field "fRESULT".
>
> Also, you spend a lot of effort making sure that DDROP has the correct
> value, but then you never use it.

The switch code is generic, and the DDROP value is used in other objects.

> I'm sure there's some way to collapse this using a lookup table, but I
> can't imagine what it would be. That's quite a handler.
>