I don’t think 12 cards will be an issue. The problem is that cards are a linked list in memory so random access to hundreds of cards can be slow. Next card is always fast (would have to look to see if it is a double link for the same to be true of previous).
Thanks, Brian On Oct 22, 2019, 2:02 PM -0400, Andrew Bell via use-livecode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>, wrote: > I learned HyperCard in K-12 during the '90s and moved to LiveCode a > couple years ago. My coding efficiency and strategies have developed > considerably over my past couple projects. I don't make a new card for > everything, but easily end up with a dozen cards in a stack for most > projects. > > Are you saying that LC is better suited to just throw everything onto > 1 card then turn on&off the visibility of groups/etc.? > > --Andrew Bell > > > > Subject: Re: Push Card > > Message-ID: <2d259a07-7c34-4337-9dbb-24f2ff8e6...@iotecdigital.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > > > I have tried push and pop before but you really have to keep track > > of the pushed cards or you end up somewhere unexpected. I'm still > > not sure what the utility of having lots and lots of cards is, if > > that is what you are doing, especially considering that the LC > > engine is not optimized to use that paradigm. > > > > Bob S > > > > > > > On Oct 22, 2019, at 08:39 , JB via use-livecode > > > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > > > > > Thank you for the info! > > > > > > I think I am going to rewrite the code to work > > > better and eliminate using push card for this > > > instance. > > > > > > JB > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
