> You should also fit some lock/unlock screen into your testing to see how > that affects your loop/s and processing speed.
Will do, thanks Scott! On Feb 19, 2010, at 6:35 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: > Recently, Josh Mellicker wrote: > >> What we found was that when writing and reading a custom property, or a >> variable, in a 1 ms loop, other stack windows became "sluggish" - very >> difficult to drag by the header bar, very difficult to click buttons on, >> rollover states sticking. >> >> When we replaced with writing to and reading a text field on a substack >> (still >> 1ms), the other windows responded perfectly normally, you could drag and >> click >> just like no callback loop was running. >> >> So I just ASSUMED the field was "faster". Maybe the truth is that custom >> properties , although faster, somehow interfere with normal mouse-related >> processes... or maybe what we found was just specific to our app, although I >> don't see how that could be. >> >> Anyway, I will do some more tests as soon as I can. I just wanted to post, in >> case someone noticed "sluggishness" in an app with a fast callback loop, my >> advice is, try fields and see if that fixes it - it did for us! > > Do you have any custom drag routines in your stack/s? Do you update any > kind of output while the loop is running? > > My guess is your repeat loop is so tight that the writing to the field > causes a screen update which slows the repeat loop and allows other events > such as window dragging to take place. In my experience, a repeat loop will > only usually down events when updating the screen repeatedly. > > You should also fit some lock/unlock screen into your testing to see how > that affects your loop/s and processing speed. > > Regards, > > Scott Rossi > Creative Director > Tactile Media, UX Design > > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
