> I just got a personal note from Benrd Niggemann who has experimented with a 
> number of parameters affecting the smoothness of the motion. He has found, 
> and I I have just confirmed it myself, that setting the syncrate (I was 
> totally unaware of such a property) to 6 rather than the default of 20 is 
> very helpful. That is to say, SLOWING the screen update INCREASES the 
> smoothness of the motion. Go figure. It is still necessary to force a screen 
> refresh with an "unlcok screen" command after each step.  I haven't a clue 
> what goes on behind the scene in this regard. 

Wow! I have been using LiveCode since it was MetaCard and only on Unix, and I 
wasn't aware of syncRate either! Looks like I need to go through the LC 
Dictionary and see what *else* I'm missing!

:D

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
Email: k...@sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/  

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