One important addition on this…
The performance issue is only in the IDE. Standalone's performance is good!
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Bill Vlahos wrote:
When I execute the AppleScript listed below in the AppleScript Editor
it works in about 1 second. Take the same script, put in in a
LiveCode field and do field “name” as AppleScript and it takes
between 1 and 2 minutes to do!
1. Why?
2. How can I make it run quickly?
Unless the AS needs to be built dynamically, you could compile it, and just
launch it through LC.
~Roger
On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com
wrote:
Bill Vlahos wrote:
When I execute the AppleScript listed below in the AppleScript Editor
it works in
Thanks everyone. It turns out that RunRev knows about the issue:
http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11358
Richard, I will be at the meeting tonight and as my contribution topic for the
meeting. See you there.
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Bill,
On Maverick?
I have no problem controlling MS Excel by executing AS scripts within LiveCode.
I tried your script on Maverick and I can confirm it is very slow. The
first time I executed it, iCal requested an authorization for the
calendar to be modified by LiveCode.
So, after a quick
Yes, I am on Mavericks. It does require authorization as you described but even
that takes 20 seconds to be prompted and once I grant it permission it still
takes 1 to 2 minutes to run.
In looking at this command line steps I wouldn’t expect it to work because it
is specifically looking for
Hi Bill - I tried your script and while it was slow it took more like
10-15 sec rather than 1-2 minutes to run on my MacBook Air (OSX 10.9.4; LC
6.3.3) . I tried simplifying the script in a few places to see if that
helped but the improvements were only incremental. The biggest slowdown
seems to
When I execute the AppleScript listed below in the AppleScript Editor it works
in about 1 second. Take the same script, put in in a LiveCode field and do
field “name” as AppleScript and it takes between 1 and 2 minutes to do!
1. Why?
2. How can I make it run quickly?
Here is the AppleScript.
