I had an interesting problem arise in a project involving rich text formatting. The problem appeared when doing a lot of formatting on the one cast member using lingo (it's a cascading menu). It seems that the member 'remembers' the previous formatting in some way and eventually gets bloated and very slow to use, even after setting the text of the member = "", saving & compacting etc.
I know that rich text formatting is notoriously slow, but my original proof-of-concept was very promising and at first I thought it was just the increasing complexity of the project & different computers that was slowing it down, but it got to a point where I was asked to address the speed of the redraw of this member. When I went back to my proof-of-concept files, I found that they were twice as fast on the same computer. I stripped back my project files but could not regain the speed until I copied out the actual text member from the old file into the new. Hi John, Try setting the rtf of member = "" Also try put the rtf of member this will show you what's going on. I have found diferent programs write rtf files in different ways. eg using different linespacing etc HTH Dave > I had an interesting problem arise in a project involving rich text > formatting. The problem appeared when doing a lot of formatting on the one > cast member using lingo (it's a cascading menu). It seems that the member > 'remembers' the previous formatting in some way and eventually gets bloated > and very slow to use, even after setting the text of the member = "", saving > & compacting etc. > johnAq ------------------------------------------------------ David Burgoyne E Proctor & Stevenson Ltd. Phone: +44 (0)117 944 4466 Fax: +44 (0)117 942 4932 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.eproctors.co.uk The contents of this e-mail / post are confidential to the addressee and are intended solely for the recipients use. If you are not the addressee, you have received this e-mail /post in error. Any disclosure, copying, distribution or action taken in reliance on it is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please note that any opinions expressed in this e-mail / post are those of the author personally and are not necessarily those of E Proctor & Stevenson Ltd or its subsidiary companies, none of whom accept responsibility for the contents of the message. ________________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs SkyScan service. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com ________________________________________________________________________ [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!]
