On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Mark Wieder <mwie...@ahsoftware.net>wrote:
> Geoff- > > Saturday, August 10, 2013, 9:46:15 AM, you wrote: > > > If that's the case, I can only assume that there is some > > threshold for waiting that allows other things to happen and one > > tick isn't long enough. Still, that's odd. > > Not that odd. One tick is a pretty small time slice. Maybe > wait 1 tick with messages > might work better, but I can't imagine that tight a loop leading to > anything but trouble. > I suppose, but still I would expect that a loop like that would leave 99.99% of whatever device it's running on free to do whatever, since that code is executing a max of 60 times per second, and should take the smallest fraction of a second to run each time. But agreed, although I don't know Dan's particular circumstances, changing the wait command to 20 ticks seems perfectly reasonable. _______________________________________________ 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
