This looks very promising. I'll play around with it later. Thanks, Klaus. Mark
On Feb 22, 2010, at 8:02 AM, Klaus on-rev wrote: > Hi Mark, > >> I'm working on a simple game of concentration for the kids I teach. >> >> I have 24 small image rectangles grouped on a card that are populated in a >> repeat loop which sets their fileNames to line x of a list of filenames held >> in a variable. These files can be large images. >> >> lock screen >> put the seconds into vSecs >> repeat with x = 1 to 24 >> set the filename of image x of group "imageGroup" to line x of vPopulate >> end repeat >> unlock screen >> put (the seconds - vSecs) >> >> The above takes 5 seconds (which is close to an eternity...) >> >> Is there a faster way to make this happen, or should I simply make a >> progress bar and not worry about it? > > did you try to use QuickTime player objectys, if that is an option? > > I remember that I made some test a couple of years a go and the winner was a > QT player, here my results from 2006. > I used a Rev image object, Trevors Enhanced QuickTime Extrenal saved I pulled > an image in the desired size to disk > and I set the filename of a Rev image. > > The results are quite impressive! > Please remember that I do the tests on my "ancient" G4 with 1 Ghz but 1 GB > RAM :-) > > ############################## > I set the filename of a Rev image, computed the correct size from the > "formatted dimensions" and adjusted heigth/width accordingly, same for > players. > Dimensions are in pixels, times in milliseconds. > > Image dimensions: 2560*1920 > Thumbnailsize: 60*60 > qtsnap2var: 572 > Rev img: 1786 > Player: 78 !!!! > > Image dimensions: 2560*1920 > Thumbnailsize: 100*100 > qtsnap2var: 585 > Rev img: 1822 > Player: 85 > > Image dimensions: 2560*1920 > Thumbnailsize: 150*150 > qtsnap2var: 563 > Rev img: 1896 > Player: 75 > > Image dimensions: 2560*1920 > Thumbnailsize: 200*200 > qtsnap2var: 585 > Rev img: 1822 > Player: 79 > > Image dimensions: 2560*1920 > Thumbnailsize: 300*300 > qtsnap2var: 780 > Rev img: 1924 > Player: 76 > > Image dimensions: 3440*2580 > Thumbnailsize: 150*150 > qtsnap2var: 742 > Rev img: 2991 > Player: 74 > ############################## > > Hope this helps! > >> Thanks >> Mark > > Best > > Klaus > > -- > Klaus Major > http://www.major-k.de > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > 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
