Hi,
Maybe my computer is just too slow. 466 G4, OS 10.3.9, 768 MB physical RAM.
It's paradoxical, though. On some tasks, Rev is scary fast. Like lock
message, lock screen, go to 1 card at a time in a big stack, looking
for something specific. Practically instantaneous!
At other times...
I've complained before about the nightmarishly slow find and replace
window -- if the stack has, say 300 cards, 100 fields per card, plus
that many more buttons per card, and a lot of script.
Today, I'm asking about something else. I often type quite a lot of
text into a single scrolling field. Like if I'm keeping a lot of
notes on one topic in some stack.
Sometimes it works okay. At other times, there's a short delay from
keyboard to screen. Sometimes the delay gets longer and longer, until
the thing is just useless. Different things seem to get it moving
along again. Saving the stack doesn't seem to do much -- maybe a
little, sometimes. Exiting all other applications doesn't seem to do
much. Saving and closing other stacks... I'm not sure. Inconsistent
results, maybe. Quitting and restarting Rev usually helps. Whether
I'm inserting text into the middle of a paragraph versus typing at
the end of the field seems to make a difference.
Bg and stack scripts are one giant scrolling field, it appears. The
same thing happens sometimes, but not always, when working in a bg or
stack script with lots of handlers, lots of text.
What do I need to understand about this phenomenon? What's the trick
to making it better?
Oddly, nothing like this ever happened in hyperCard. Same computer,
older OS. Yet Rev is supposed to be faster than HC, at least in some
ways, and OS X is supposed to be faster than OS 9.
I've heard that the right graphics card can speed up some Macintoshes
running OS X. I'm told the graphics card will handle most of the
number crunching necessary for the Aqua GUI, relieving the CPU and
RAM of this chore. Would this help in my situation? I don't know much
about my graphics card. It shipped with the machine. ATY,Rage 128
Pro, it says here. 16 MB VRAM. I don't know if that's a lot or a
little.
Would more physical RAM likely make a difference? I have an "activity
monitor" utility. Rev doesn't seem to be maxxing out the RAM, even
when other applications are running. But what do I know? Not much.
Thanks in advance,
Tim
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