> Just add the wait into your repeat loop with vars or custom props and you > will see it is even faster than fields. ;-)
Will do! Thanks Jim, your message cleared some some things! On Feb 19, 2010, at 6:55 PM, Jim Bufalini wrote: > 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. > > Ahhh...Now THIS makes sense. Your repeat loop is so tight that the GUI > becomes unresponsive. It has nothing to do with the actual speed of > variables vs. fields. Please add, somewhere in your repeat loop: > > wait 0 milliseconds with messages > >> 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. > > Yes, because here other handlers are starting and stopping and this gives > the engine opportunity to intervene. > >> 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. > > It's the repeat loop itself without any wait or other handlers being called. > >> 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! > > Just add the wait into your repeat loop with vars or custom props and you > will see it is even faster than fields. ;-) > > Aloha from Hawaii, > > Jim Bufalini > > _______________________________________________ > 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
