Tom Glod wrote: > Can someone explain the seemingly extraordinary performance > improvement in using apparently its "split second" vs "over a minute" > > set the hidden of line 1 to - 1 of field 1 to false > > vs. > > repeat with i = 1 the number of lines of fld 1 > set the hidden of line i of fld 1 to false > end repeat > > it doesn't seem like the loop would be the bottleneck here, but rather > the work on the field itself....but obviously, I know nothing about > this engine
Think about all the steps a computer needs to take to render text in a field.
Multiply that by the number of lines... -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web ____________________________________________________________________ ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com _______________________________________________ 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
