On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Lilith Pal wrote:

> I have a very serious problem with text. Im creating a project which has a 
> lot of text in. It is like a small book. I'm using an embeded font and all 
> my text has to be antialiased. I use Director 8.5. The problem is that it 
> takes ages every time I try to edit the text and it takes about 2-3 seconds 
> to go from one page to the other.

Yes, large numbers of #text members will tend to do that. Try moving all 
your #text members into an external cast file; that helps things load 
somewhat faster.

> What is wrong? Why text does things like that?

#text members are actually displaying text, RTF and HTML simultaneously, 
and are antialiasing to boot. They do an astonishing amount of work. If 
it's possible to do so consider using #field members, or external text 
files (perhaps RTF files?) which you import dynamically using FileIO when 
the user wants to turn a "page". That way you only need one #text member.

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