Thanks for the tip Geoff, as *always* very insightful. I have used the
'repeat for each' using variables instead of fields. Yes, my laptop did
give off a puff of smoke at the end ;~|
My question was actually related to how to get Revolution to quickly
indirectly point to objects, ie a pointer. I want to store a list of
field IDs in a custom property, then gather the data out of each pointed
to field, as quickly as possible. Your speed tips really helped working
through the list, however I'm not sure if there is a really fast way to
interpret and then point to an object, in one line. The 'do' (as per my
prev list mail) seemed slow in a big loop. I'm not sure if there is a
faster way than the one below:
on mouseUp
put the cThisFldLookup of this cd into lThisFld -- custom property,
points to a field
put value(lThisFld) into lThisVar -- indirect ref?
put lThisVar into fld "Display Text" -- now display the text, could
merge above line with this
end mouseUp
Seems that Revolution will use lThisFld to point to the field if it
exists, however if not we end up with the name of the non-existent
field. Adding error checking will slow this down further.
Any speed tips or am I at the limit? Are 'value' and 'do...' the only
ways to point to an object?
Many thanks,
M@tt Denton
On Thursday, October 25, 2001, at 08:00 AM, use-revolution-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The repeat for each... structure is by far the fastest way to loop
> through the contents of something.
>
> Depending on what you're doing, though, check out the filter command.
> If you need the lines, not the line numbers, this will be even faster:
>
> filter lFieldVariable with ("*" & lThisChar & "*")
>
> Be sure to keep a safe distance between you and this command, and don't
> touch the machinery for a few minutes afterwards, because it's
> _fast_. :-)
>
>
M@
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