I use the time based animation method for most of my animations, more info in this article: http://director-online.com/buildArticle.php?id=1153
The only problem I find is that more often than not even with a super fast computer, it's never quite as smooth as the score, I usually only really notice it when I have lots of animations running. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of arjen Sent: 10 October 2005 20:45 To: Lingo programming discussion list Subject: Re: <lingo-l> test with lingo if the computer is slow? if you're talking about animating graphics you could try another approach. i always use time-based animation instead of frame-based. this means that instead of animating something in the score over the span of number of frames, you do the animation purely in lingo over the span of a certain time. this way any computer will complete the anymation whitin the time specified. but a faster computer will render more frames (making it look smoother) and a slower computer less. theoretically this means the cpu-load is the same for any computer. arri On Oct 7, 2005, at 6:34 PM, Kurt Griffin wrote: > I'd recommend starting a timer, doing something intensive, stopping > the timer, and checking the speed of the operation. Processor speed > and memory are handy to know, but there are countless things that > can slow a machine down. The same app on the same machine can run > slower depending on the environment at the time. So, if you test > the actual conditions when your app launches, you'll get a better > result. > > 2 cents, > Kurt > > >> budapi >> proc speed and memory >> -c >> >> Michael Nadel wrote: >> >> >>> Is there a way to test with lingo (or any other way) if the computer >>> is slow or not? Like how much MHZ and Ram it has?Because I have some >>> effects that I want to skip if the computer is slow, since they take >>> too much time.... >>> >>> Thanks for any leads.... >>> > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go > to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the > list, email [email protected] (Problems, email owner- > [email protected]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with > programming Lingo. Thanks!] > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [email protected] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [email protected] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
