As always, YMMV. I created a stack with two fields. Ran this script once:
on mouseUp repeat with i = 1 to 150000 repeat 20 if random(4) > 1 then put random(100) - 30 after R put tab after R end repeat put cr into char -1 of R end repeat put R into fld 1 end mouseUp Then ran this script -- it reports less than 0.2 seconds for the actual filtering: on mouseUp set the itemdel to tab put the long seconds into T repeat for each line L in fld 1 if item 9 of L is empty or item 15 of L < 0 then next repeat put L & cr after R end repeat put the long seconds - T put R into fld 2 end mouseUp If you have enough data or a slow enough computer to need to report on progress, then you can use this (I added a third field): on mouseUp set the itemdel to tab put the long seconds into T put the seconds into S put 0 into C repeat for each line L in fld 1 add 1 to C if the seconds <> S then put C into fld 3 wait 0 seconds put the seconds into S end if if item 9 of L is empty or item 15 of L < 0 then next repeat put L & cr after R end repeat put the long seconds - T put C into fld 3 put R into fld 2 end mouseUp On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Dar Scott <d...@swcp.com> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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