Dr. Hawkins wrote:
> so does styledText even have a purpose any more? Should it
> be treated as deprecated?
It seems it serves a very different purpose than htmlText. It's a new
addition and folks find it useful, so I wouldn't expect it to be deprecated.
Trevor DeVore wroteL
> I use styled text all of the time in my text editors and exporters.
> Mainly for modifying runs of text and for converting text to other
> formats. Two examples:
> ...
Good stuff - thanks for that, Trevor. I figured it was useful, I just
needed to see how.
Ali Lloyd wrote:
> Regarding id caching, I had an idea that one might be able to use
> it to emulate the performance gain of a 'repeat for each...' style
> structure on controls.
>
> Referencing a control by number or name will iterate through the
> controls of the card until it gets to the specified one. Thus a
> loop of the form
>
> repeat with x = 1 to the number of controls of this card
> // do something with control x
> end repeat
>
> could in theory be speed up by using
>
> repeat for each line tId in the controlIDs of this card
> // do something with control id tID
> end repeat
>
> However I haven't yet tried to measure any actual performance
> difference, and I think it would only be faster if there were
> a large number of controls.
Alex's test suggests it needs a very large number of controls or a very
high number of iterations, but being a performance fiend I certainly
don't mind any optimizations that offer a speed boost, even a minor one.
I can appreciate why this is limited to IDs, because they're seldom
modified, but since I so rarely use them I have to ask: has the team
considered caching other control references, perhaps purging the cache
when the control's name or number is modified?
Tom Bodine wrote:
> Overall, the field control of LC is far more powerful than the
> fields offered in Director and Flash (and probably other tools),
> so there are competitive reasons to maintain and promote these
> features in LC.
Amen to that, brother. Hardly a week goes by that I don't hear, "Wow -
you can do that in LiveCode? Cool!"
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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