I need advise on slow start standalone
On several of my projects, where the opening standalone screen is not immediately responsive (particular on Windows) for say a half minute or more, I have found it useful to place a card titled Loading at the top of the stack. The card has a simple black background with the words Loading... at the center. The script for the card is: on openStack if the short name of this card is Loading then go next end openStack Then, the user has more patience waiting for the program to fully load. Hope this helps. Stephen Goldberg www.medmaster.net ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
I need advise on slow start standalone
Hi there all, I have a educational standalone which start very slow on OSX and Win 7 (20 sec or longer).The stack has 180 cards and its size is 80 MB. The standalone however is only 8 MB but uses 150 MB of RAM. I know all cards are put into memory on startup. Is there a way to speed things up? I already set the 'DontUseQT' to true. I could put all cards as seperate stacks in a folder and call them when needed. So only then they are put in memory, right? But this is a lot of work :-( In addition to this: If I use seperate stacks how do I make sure the individual stacks are not opened in the IDE and used? I know I can password protect them but I don't want them to open at all. All your advise is welcome!! greetings, William ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: I need advise on slow start standalone
curious how you're going from an 80mb stack to an 8mb standalone. In any case, likely you should change it so you only load content when you need it. If you have any openstack, preopenstack, opencard, preopencard handlers, throw some diagnostics in them to keep track of time as they execute, to figure out where the time is going, something like: put ticks() step one cr after displayThisWhenStartupIsComplete gc ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: I need advise on slow start standalone
Hi William, Use variables instead of fields when at all possible. You will find that your executable code will pick up in speed. If you are just afraid users will think the stack has crashed, use a progress bar to tell them when everything has finished loading. For some weird reason progress bars make some people a little more patient. Other than that, try displays and timers in your code to see which sections are taking the longest to load. Then look at the code to see if there is a more efficient way of accomplishing the same tasks. Good luck! Rick On Mar 5, 2011, at 9:40 AM, William de Smet wrote: Hi there all, I have a educational standalone which start very slow on OSX and Win 7 (20 sec or longer).The stack has 180 cards and its size is 80 MB. The standalone however is only 8 MB but uses 150 MB of RAM. I know all cards are put into memory on startup. Is there a way to speed things up? I already set the 'DontUseQT' to true. I could put all cards as seperate stacks in a folder and call them when needed. So only then they are put in memory, right? But this is a lot of work :-( In addition to this: If I use seperate stacks how do I make sure the individual stacks are not opened in the IDE and used? I know I can password protect them but I don't want them to open at all. All your advise is welcome!! greetings, William ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode __ Rick Harrison You can buy my $10 music album Funny Time Machine digital CD on the iTunes Store Now! To visit the iTunes Store now to listen to samples of my CD please click on the following link. (Please note you must have iTunes installed on your computer for this link to work.) http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playListId=213668290 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
