Re: Interface ground to a halt

Wilhelm Sanke Tue, 13 Apr 2004 14:27:05 -0700

On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, Norman Winn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I am actually getting somewhere. I managed to create a large bunch of
buttons and get them cycling through the random colours.

Fortified with my success I decided to script the creation of an array
of rectangles, 62x25 of them.

This took rather a long time.

I have not yet worked out how to set the 'left' of my rectangles at
creation time so each row just got piled up on the same spot.  So, once
they had all been created, I tried to 'select all' with a view to
lining them up edge to edge (this is a great feature).

Here is a script to create a matrix of rectangles - edge to edge and not overlapping for a 40 X 40 matrix:

on mouseUp
  put 100 into toright
  put 100 into vert
  lock screen
  lock messages
  put 40 into tline
  set the width of the templategraphic to 9
  set the height of the templategraphic to 9
  set the filled of the templategraphic to true
  set the linesize of the templategraphic to 0
  set the backcolor of the templategraphic to green # or whatever
  repeat with i = 0 to 39
    add 9 to vert
    put 100 into toright
    repeat with j  = 1 to 40
      add 9 to toright
      put "Test" & (i * tline + j) into tname
      create graphic tname
      set the topleft of graphic tname to toright,vert
    end repeat
  end repeat
  choose browse tool
end mouseUp

Unfortunately when I did 'select all' everything ground to a halt for many minutes. Am I overloading things by doing this? Maybe rectangles use more resources than buttons?

Revolution has sometimes serious problems to handle larger numbers of controls in the IDE (These problems do not exist with the Metacard IDE). Compare my post "(long) Transparent IDE elements and other problems" of March 25 to this list.

This is especially true when the controls overlap as in your case. Monte Goulding discovered this when he tried to recreate one of my tests stacks and was working to improve the new Standalone Builder.

One problem is that I don't get the beach ball (OS X) to indicate
things are going on. The whole app just becomes inactive - but not
locked or crashed,

In some cases I have had waiting times of up to 45 minutes!

I think (or better "hope") that the Rev team will address these problems soon.

Regards,

Wilhelm Sanke


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