Right. Code that is executed in a DO command is compiled each time and so will
take much longer to execute.
Bob
On Feb 11, 2012, at 10:33 AM, Ken Corey wrote:
> On 11/02/2012 17:53, Richard MacLemale wrote:
>> Well, I know one thing - trying to put script steps in an array and run it
>> on t
Hi, Richard. I tried a frame based demo animation with one main
animation loop that locks the screen then updates all objects. I found
that instead of trying to update certain objects at frame X, etc,
updating everything on every frame worked best (for this particular demo
anyway). Objects do
On Feb 11, 2012, at 1:33 PM, Ken Corey wrote:
>
> I don't know what the engine does to the code...the code might be "compiled"
> (I use that term loosely) down, where evaluated code isn't.
>
> Hrm...can you abstract each little script enough to make little commands?
>
> on appearFlower
> set
On 11/02/2012 17:53, Richard MacLemale wrote:
Well, I know one thing - trying to put script steps in an array and run it on
the iPad 1 is NOT a winning idea. It's taking 163 milliseconds to execute two
lines of code that way. My window is more like 33 milliseconds. Back to the
old drawing b
Hi Richard,
here is a bareBone frame based handler... Very crude, nothing special. I assume
for starters this is in a button. You will want to do adjustments.
Cheers,
Malte
local sStartTime,sCurrentFrame
on mouseUp
set the flag of me to not the flag of me
if the flag of me then
Well, I know one thing - trying to put script steps in an array and run it on
the iPad 1 is NOT a winning idea. It's taking 163 milliseconds to execute two
lines of code that way. My window is more like 33 milliseconds. Back to the
old drawing board, as they say...
---
Richard MacLemale
Musi
On Feb 11, 2012, at 7:38 AM, Ken Corey wrote:
> I'm a LiveCode newbie, but I'd want to minimise the time spent asking "is it
> time for me yet" for each of those commands.
>
> I'd probably try to put the commands into a list ordered on the frame number.
> Your insert is a little trickier here,
On 11/02/2012 12:19, Richard MacLemale wrote:
I'm creating a variable called frameNumber and each time the loop is triggered
I'm adding 1 to it. Since I've scripted my loop to run 30 times per second,
after 1 second the frameNumber would be 30. OK, so I want certain lines of
code to be run a
