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, because you need to preserve the > order of the frame number. > > Each time through the loop, you look at the first command on the list, and if > the current frame is less you know no actions are due and ignore it, if it > matches, remove it from the list and perform the action, and then check the > next item on the list. > > Does that make sense? Is there a better way to handle such things in LiveCode?
Yeah, I definitely want to write the tightest code I can, because animation is so time sensitive. I'm thinking maybe I can use an array, where each frame is a key, maybe... --- Richard MacLemale Music = http://www.richardmac.com Programming = http://www.macandchee.se _______________________________________________ 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
