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[Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel]

Yep, just tried it and the counter slowed down the process in a VERY
noticeable way.  I will have to evaluate if it is worth it or not.

SKIP


On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 3:17 PM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
wrote:

> On 6/3/2014, 2:02 PM, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel wrote:
>
>> Given that I have about
>> 150,000 rows of data to process I am going to need to create some type of
>> progress bar or counter.
>>
>
> Try it first without one, you might be surprised. The "repeat for each"
> construct is very fast.
>
> One time I added a progress bar out of habit because I had so many lines
> to process. It took about 15 seconds to go through the whole loop. When I
> removed the progress bar, the loop completed in two or three seconds. It
> turned out that updating the progress bar took more time than the entire
> rest of the loop.
>
> So see if the progress bar is really worth the overhead. If it's just a
> little slow, consider setting the cursor to a watch instead so the user
> knows something is happening. That has no overhead. Or if you do need a
> progress bar, only update it every 10th or 50th iteration or so.
>
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> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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