lcTaskList Performance

[Bill Vlahos]

Peter,

So you have over 140,000 objects to search through and it does that in 20 seconds? How long does it take the LiveCode Find and Replace function to search all of that? Searching through all those objects in 20 seconds might not be all that bad considering that LiveCode does't handle lots of cards in a stack that well.

The progress indicator advances with each open stack. Try opening 5 small stacks with your big stack in the middle of the order. How does the progress indicator advance? I would assume it will be still while it searches through your big stack and advances quickly before and after.

I would suggest turning off the automatic reindexing in the preferences and just click the index button manually to time it.

Do you have a splash screen to run your program or do you run it in the IDE when using it?

It sounds like you have a terrifically useful program that you wrote. Sorry to hear it will be obsolete for you soon.

Bill Vlahos
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On May 24, 2012, at 8:16 PM, Peter M. Brigham, MD wrote:

> I'm guessing that the reason for the discrepancy between your case and mine is that my main stack has 700+ cards, so Bill's plugin has to search over 200 controls on 700+ cards to index the scripts, plus the 44 other stacks. I know, I shouldn't be storing data in individual cards, I know....
> 
> My stack system, Psychopharmica, is the way it is because I started the whole thing over 20 years ago in Hypercard and had a card for every patient, and I continued that model through my RunRev/LiveCode transition, not appreciating the importance of separating data from GUI.