Did you try every so often? To do that, check for ‘i mod 1000 = 0’ or the like. There might be a faster way, but that works.
Dar On Jun 3, 2014, at 1:23 PM, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel <s...@magicgate.com> wrote: > Yep, just tried it and the counter slowed down the process in a VERY > noticeable way. I will have to evaluate if it is worth it or not. > > SKIP > > > On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 3:17 PM, J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com> > wrote: > >> On 6/3/2014, 2:02 PM, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel wrote: >> >>> Given that I have about >>> 150,000 rows of data to process I am going to need to create some type of >>> progress bar or counter. >>> >> >> Try it first without one, you might be surprised. The "repeat for each" >> construct is very fast. >> >> One time I added a progress bar out of habit because I had so many lines >> to process. It took about 15 seconds to go through the whole loop. When I >> removed the progress bar, the loop completed in two or three seconds. It >> turned out that updating the progress bar took more time than the entire >> rest of the loop. >> >> So see if the progress bar is really worth the overhead. If it's just a >> little slow, consider setting the cursor to a watch instead so the user >> knows something is happening. That has no overhead. Or if you do need a >> progress bar, only update it every 10th or 50th iteration or so. >> >> -- >> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com >> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 _______________________________________________ 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
