On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Michael Walas wrote:
> I have a long handler that puts the contents of 12 different variables
> (each containing about 15,000 chars) into 12 different flds. It takes
> 25 seconds for the handler to run on my 6100 Mac running MetaCard 2.2.5
> If I take out the 12 lines of the above, the handler runs in less than 1
> second. I've tried different fld properties but I can't speedup the
> "put var into fld myfield" Anybody know any tricks to speed this up?
> (I know, I need a new computer)
The time is probably being spend on the word wrap which is pretty slow
on the Mac in 2.2.X. One easy way to speed this up would be set the
dontWrap property of the fields to true. If you can't do that, or
reduce the amount of text being put into the fields (no way to *see*
all that text, is there?), or get a faster machine, or run Linux
(which does this *much* faster) on your PPC, your only option is to
wait for 2.3 which does text flow anywhere from 3 to 10 times faster.
Regards,
Scott
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