John_Miller@mindlink.UUCP (John Miller) (02/25/91)
> I have a time card stack which I wrote for my father's business. > It has upwards of 120 fields on each card. I am converting it > to HC 2.0, but tabbing between fields takes a good 3-4 seconds > on a Mac IIx, I can't think what sort of time it would take on > a Mac SE. The "on closeField" scripts don't seem to seriously > affect the speed, it seems to be more a matter of the number > of fields. Gee, what good timing you have. Just this weekend, I finally resolved a compatibility problem between the FastTab XCMD and RasterOps video boards. Even as we speak, FastTab 1.01 is travelling at the speed of modulation to comp.binaries.mac. FastTab is an XCMD that, for many stacks, will accelerate HyperCard 2.0's tabbing speed. Your stack would represent an extreme case that probably would gain the most from FastTab. At the same time, these fields probably form a grid, yes? You might wait to keep your eyes open for an XCMD that would display a row and column XWindow. The only one I've seen so far is Tabloid by Frederic Rinaldi, but, unfortunately, I don't think it supports changing the text in a cell after the XWindow is initialized. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- John Miller (604) 433-1795 Symplex Systems AppleLink: (rarely) CDA0461 Burnaby, British Columbia Fax: (604) 430-8516 Canada usenet: john_miller@mindlink.uucp Macintosh Consulting and Software Development ----------------------------------------------------------------------
jcocon@hubcap.clemson.edu (james c oconnor) (02/25/91)
I have a time card stack which I wrote for my father's business. It has upwards of 120 fields on each card. I am converting it to HC 2.0, but tabbing between fields takes a good 3-4 seconds on a Mac IIx, I can't think what sort of time it would take on a Mac SE. The "on closeField" scripts don't seem to seriously affect the speed, it seems to be more a matter of the number of fields. 1. Does HC 2.02 fix this? 2. Is there any way to help alleviate this short of deleting fields? 3. What is the most efficient way to refer to buttons/fields? Name, Number, ID? My report generating scripts run a little faster, but those only happen once a session. The tap key is used many hundreds of times. Thanks, Jim