Why "Objects are only deleted on idle"?

[Scott Rossi]

I had/have your same concerns, and while the stack can be saved, it's not
intended to be saved on a regular basis (only during development).  If I
somehow reached control ids over a billion, I could create a new editor
stack and copy over the core controls while saving dozens of hours of
development time because I wouldn't need to lay anything out -- all of the
editing control layout is programmatic/dynamic.  So this approach is
worthwhile for me.

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, UX/UI Design




On 9/23/15, 11:22 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of Richard Gaskin"
<use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com on behalf of
ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:

>Scott Rossi wrote:
> > I have a property editor that builds/positions its editing controls
> > dynamically, based on some simple rules.  When a new object is
> > selected, the editing controls for the recent object are removed and
> > replaced with editing controls for the newly selected object.  Using
> > this process, I don't have to lay out hardwired screens for every
> > existing or future control that might come along.  Depending on how
> > long the editing session is, the editor could go wind up creating and
> > deleting hundreds or even thousands of controls.  So in this case,
> > many objects are created that are not intended to be saved.
>
>Thanks.  Along with Mark Waddingham's examples I can see the benefit.
>
>But as for your case, do those newly-created controls get created in a
>stack that ever gets saved?
>
>Call me paranoid (I've been called worse), but with a finite number of
>IDs (2 billion?) when we consider the impact on ID availability of a
>layout that has a couple DataGrids on it, along with other stuff that
>creates thousands of controls, over the life span of a project it seems
>not unthinkable that we might hit the ID limit.
>
>I once tested what happens when the ID limit is hit.  It's not pretty.
>
>Has there been any interest in having that number raised?
>
>-- 
>  Richard Gaskin
>  Fourth World Systems
>  Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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