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4ox, oy, moved, prevpos
4ox, oy
H0, ty - oy
getcurrenttime()
H200,0
"This took" && getTime(
) && "
buttonstilldown
buttondown
buttonup
buttondoubleclick
buttondown
moved
prevpos
buttonstilldown
buttonup
buttonstilldown
buttondoubleclick
getcurrenttime
This took
getTime
seconds to move.
moved
prevpos
Does It Matter Where Objects Are?The Background
Drag the arrow to a row of objects, then double click it.
buttonup
buttonup
response
Aw geeOkaylreadyr me?ha ha ha
This tests redrawing of objects on the background and page.
The bottom two rows are draw objects on the page and background.
4ox, oy, moved, prevpos
4ox, oy
H0, ty - oy
getcurrenttime()
H200,0
"This took" && getTime(
) && "
buttonstilldown
buttondown
buttonup
buttondoubleclick
buttondown
moved
prevpos
buttonstilldown
buttonup
buttonstilldown
buttondoubleclick
getcurrenttime
This took
getTime
seconds to move.
moved
prevpos
There
4ox, oy, moved, prevpos
4ox, oy
H0, ty - oy
getcurrenttime()
H200,0
"This took" && getTime(
) && "
buttonstilldown
buttondown
buttonup
buttondoubleclick
buttondown
moved
prevpos
buttonstilldown
buttonup
buttonstilldown
buttondoubleclick
getcurrenttime
This took
getTime
seconds to move.
moved
prevpos
flipper
afterflip
enterpage
enterpage
"Now
good men
come
their country."
getcurrenttime()
"It took" && getTime(
) && "
buttonup
buttonup
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
getcurrenttime
It took
getTime
seconds to do this.
An Opaque Overlapping Field
"Now
good men
come
their country."
getcurrenttime()
"It took" && getTime(
) && "
buttonup
buttonup
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
getcurrenttime
It took
getTime
seconds to do this.
A Transparent Overlapping Field
"Now
good men
come
their country."
getcurrenttime()
"It took" && getTime(
) && "
buttonup
buttonup
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
getcurrenttime
It took
getTime
seconds to do this.
An Opaque Field
"Now
good men
come
their country."
getcurrenttime()
"It took" && getTime(
) && "
buttonup
buttonup
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
getcurrenttime
It took
getTime
seconds to do this.
A Transparent Field
Be Careful How You Place Fieldsdssssss
The speed of typing or of displaying text through OpenScript can vary greatly: :, depending on:
getcurrenttime()
"It only took" && getTime(
) && "
a list
100 things."
buttonup
buttonup
getcurrenttime
It only took
getTime
seconds to pop a list of 100 things.
The Right Way --> Pop
getcurrenttime()
"That was" && getTime(
) && "
iterate through a list
100 things."
buttonup
buttonup
getcurrenttime
That was
getTime
seconds to iterate through a list of 100 things.
The Wrong Way --> Item
An Obscure Concept: Pop, Don't Steptep
When referring to items in a comma-separated list, don't step through items by saying "item i of foo". Instead just pop a working copy of the list until it's null.
to handle buttonup
system realList
local wrkList
set wrkList to realList
while wrkList is not null
pop wrkList
--do something with IT here
end
to handle buttonup
system realList
step i from 1 to itemcount(realList)
get item i of realList
--do something with IT here
end
end
Some Common Sense.... Sense...
Use a common background for similar pages
Minimize the number of objects on the page and background
Group objects only when your scripts require it
Clip bitmaps to as small a size as possible
Clean up your books before distributing themed rectangular ones
Avoid overlapping objects such as data fields and their labels
Use a background pattern of none if you're brave
Don't wrap text in fields if you can instead fit it all on one lineve
Don't wrap text in fields if you can instead fit it all on one linerap text in fields if you can instead fit it all on one line
Maybe These Aren't So Obvious...o
Cache property values and object references into variables
"Clear" properties or variables instead of setting them to null
Put keyDown/Up/Char handlers only where they're needed
Limit code in your Idle handler
Use the "character" string specifier over "word" or textline"
Pre-flip pages before showing the main windowowwndown windowwre showing the main window
"cache"
"udp"
terpage
leavepage
enterpage
enterpage
leavepage
cache
"cache"
getcurrenttime()
"It only took" && getTime(
) && "
refer
a property value that was cached
buttonup
buttonup
cache
getcurrenttime
It only took
getTime
seconds to refer to a property value that was cached in a local variable.
Cache A Property
getcurrenttime()
"However
took" && getTime(
) && "
refer directly
a default property 2000 times."
buttonup
buttonup
getcurrenttime
However it took
getTime
seconds to refer directly to a default property 2000 times.
Refer To A Default Property
Referring to Properties vs. Caching Them
If you need to refer to a property of an object more than once in a handler, or series of handlers, it will be much faster to set a variable to that value, and then refer to that variable instead of the property. This is especially true for user-defined properties, which take twice as long to get as default properties do.
"udp"
getcurrenttime()
"And
took" && getTime(
) && "
refer
a user-defined property 2000 times."
buttonup
buttonup
getcurrenttime
And it took
getTime
seconds to refer to a user-defined property 2000 times.
Refer To A User-Defined Property
cache
to handle buttonup
set bar to name of this page
step i from 1 to 2000
set foo to bar
end
end
set syscursor to 1
foo to t
end
beep 1
set syscursor to 1
to handle buttonup
step i from 1 to 2000
set foo to name of this page
end
set syscursor to 1
of this page
end
beep 1
set syscursor to 1
et syscursor to 1
to handle buttonup
step i from 1 to 2000
set foo to bar of this page
end
i from 1 to 2000
set xoo to foo of this page
end
set syscursor to 1
et syscursor to 1
yellow
getcurrenttime()
"It took" && (
)/1000 && "
a message
here."
buttonup
buttonup
getcurrenttime
It took
getcurrenttime
seconds for a message to get here.
Send Message (Book Handler)
getcurrenttime()
"It took" && getTime(
) && "
a message
up the hierarchy
1000 times."
buttonup
buttonup
getcurrenttime
It took
getTime
seconds for a message to float up the hierarchy to the book script 1000 times.
Send Message (Book Handler)
getcurrenttime()
"It took" && getTime(
) && "
a message
up the hierarchy
1000 times."
buttonup
buttonup
getcurrenttime
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It took
getTime
seconds for a message to float up the hierarchy to the background script 1000 times.
Send Message (Background Handler)
getcurrenttime()
"It took" && getTime(
) && "
a message
up the hierarchy
1000 times."
buttonup
buttonup
getcurrenttime
It took
getTime
seconds for a message to float up the hierarchy to the page script 1000 times.
Send Message (Page Handler)
getcurrenttime()
"It took" && getTime(
) && "
a message
be sent directly
1000 times."
buttonup
buttonup
getcurrenttime
It took
getTime
seconds for a message to be sent directly to the book script 1000 times.
Send Directly To Book Handler
getcurrenttime()
"It took" && getTime(
) && "
a message
be sent directly
1000 times."
buttonup
buttonup
getcurrenttime
o^}mbg
It took
getTime
seconds for a message to be sent directly to the background script 1000 times.
Send Directly To Background Handler
getcurrenttime()
"It took" && getTime(
) && "
a message
be sent directly
1000 times."
buttonup
buttonup
getcurrenttime
oi_mp
It took
getTime
seconds for a message to be sent directly to the page script 1000 times.
Send Directly To Page Handler
The Hierarchy And Message Passing
Where should you put your scripts? This should give you a clue. The yellow button does the same as the top green button, but from the bottom of a deeply nested group.oup.
enterpage
leavepage
enterpage
leavepage
getcurrenttime()
H15,0
"It took" && getTime(
) && "
on the
200 times
Hreferencing
directly."
105,4500
buttonup
buttonup
getcurrenttime
It took
getTime
seconds to move a rectangle on the page 200 times by referencing it directly.
Reference a Page Object
Referring to Objects vs. Caching Themhem
Just as caching a property value into a varible increases performance, so will caching a refence to an object. For instance you can say:
set foo to button "total" of this background.
Then refence foo instead of the button. It'll be alot faster.properties, which take twice as long to get as default properties do.
getcurrenttime()
H15,0
"It took" && getTime(
) && "
on the
200 times
caching a reference
105,4500
buttonup
buttonup
getcurrenttime
It took
getTime
seconds to move a rectangle on the page 200 times after caching a reference to it.
Reference a Cached Page Object
getcurrenttime()
H15,0
"It took" && getTime(
) && "
on the
/200 times
Hreferencing
directly."
105,4800
buttonup
buttonup
getcurrenttime
It took
getTime
seconds to move a rectangle on the background 200 times by referencing it directly.
Reference a Background Object
getcurrenttime()
H15,0
"It took" && getTime(
) && "
on the
/200 times
caching a reference
105,4800
buttonup
buttonup
getcurrenttime
It took
getTime
seconds to move a rectangle on the background 200 times after caching a reference to it.
Reference a Cached Background Object
moregroup
morelist
leavepage
leavepage
morelist
moregroup
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Using Groups And Lists Of Object References Speed
explanation
Stuff In A Group
The GroupA Group
buttonup
buttonup
When you assign a property value to a group, that value propagates on down to the objects of the group.
120,50,100
0,50,100
60,50,100
240,50,100
0,100,0
0,0,0
180,50,100
300,50,100
country
ll > 0
getcurrenttime()
B"a"
B"b"
B"c"
"This took" && getTime(
) && "
buttonup
buttonup
textfrompoint
getcurrenttime
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getTime
seconds.
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B"a"
B"b"
B"c"
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buttonup
textfrompoint
getcurrenttime
This took
getTime
seconds.
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Yellow
White
Black
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buttonup
As Individual Items
As A List Of Items
As A Group
moregroup
buttonup
buttonup
moregroup
morelist
buttonup
buttonup
morelist
morelist
Lists of object references can be very handy. As an author tool, the system variable Selection is great to use for setting properties of many objects at once. Just select all the objects that you want to change and then set a property of Selection to whatever value you want. That value will propagate on down to all the objects in selection.
If you want to clear or set the text of many recordfields, use a list of references to the recordfields without the "of background" specifier in each reference.....
buttonup
buttonup
moregroup
One good use for groups is controlling the checking of a series of radio buttons. If you group a set of related radio buttons, you can then set the checked property of that group to FALSE. All the radio buttons will become unchecked. An example of the radio button group's script might be:
to handle buttonup
set my checked to FALSE
set checked of target to TRUE
endUE
endenddUE
buttonup
buttonup
You can set properties of many objects at the same time by making a list of object references to all the objects, and then setting a property of the list, or grouping all the objects and then setting the property of the group, even if that property isn't a default property for a group.
grouping all the objects and then setting the property of the group, even if that property isn't a default property for a group.
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Click a radio button, and then one of the green shadowed fields to see the difference.e group, even if that property isn't a default property for a group.
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getcurrenttime()
o(48 +
(80))
"It took" && getTime(
) && "
buttonup
buttonup
getcurrenttime
It took
getTime
seconds to do this.
The Cost of Character and Paragraph Properties
Character and paragraph properties have an effect on the speed of displaying text. The Test button on this page puts 200 random characters after the text of the yellow field. Set character and paragraph properties of the yellow field with the two green buttons, and then click the test button.
These statistics were found by creating an empty book, drawing an object, and then saving the book. A seperate book was saved for each kind of object. An empty book was 6588 bytes. Note that this may not be completely reliable, but it does give you some indication of the cost of each object type.
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buttonup
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k8 = 0
"brows"
H0,-50
H0,50
H0,-50
H0,50
k2 = 0
brows
brows
brows
brows
brows
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Efficient Clean
Concise Book
Defunct User
Defined Properties
Old Hidden
Objects
Unused
Unnecessary references to proper+
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Objects
Unnecessary references to property values
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B"byrbutton"
buildcal m, y
Ztotdays, wrkday, i
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weekDay(1, m, y)
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B("b" & i)
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B("b" & i)
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) && "
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y <= 1799
y >= 1800
y <= 1899
y >= 2000
y <= 2099
y >= 2100
y <= 2199
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y4) +
+ d +
m <> 2
"31,28,31,30,31,30,31,31,30,31,30,31"
displayDate m, y
%"M"
buildcal
setup
displayDate
weekDay
daysInMonth
setup
bmobutton
byrbutton
currmo
curryear
stilldown
setup
buildcal
getcurrenttime
weekDay
daysInMonth
Whew! It took me
getTime
seconds to draw.
totdays
wrkday
weekDay
034025036146
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mfactor
cfactor
leapyear
daysInMonth
31,28,31,30,31,30,31,31,30,31,30,31
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displayDate
bmobutton
byrbutton
hilight
false
byrbutton
4currmo, curryear, stilldown, setup
"frame2"
B"byrbutton" = 1700
B"bmobutton"
"January"
displaydate
buildcal
buttonup
buttonstilldown
buttonup
setup
frame2
byrbutton
bmobutton
January
displaydate
frame2
oHSbuildcal
frame2
currmo
curryear
stilldown
setup
buttonstilldown
setup
frame2
byrbutton
bmobutton
January
displaydate
frame2
setup
currmo
curryear
stilldown
4currmo, curryear, stilldown, setup
"frame2"
B"byrbutton" = 2199
B"bmobutton"
"December"
> 12
displaydate
buildcal
> 12
buttonup
buttonstilldown
buttonup
setup
frame2
byrbutton
bmobutton
December
displaydate
frame2
oHSbuildcal
frame2
currmo
curryear
stilldown
setup
buttonstilldown
setup
frame2
byrbutton
bmobutton
December
displaydate
frame2
setup
currmo
curryear
stilldown
4currmo, curryear, stilldown, setup
"frame2"
B"byrbutton" = 1700
displaydate
buildcal
buttonup
buttonstilldown
buttonup
setup
frame2
byrbutton
displaydate
frame2
oHSbuildcal
frame2
currmo
curryear
stilldown
setup
buttonstilldown
setup
frame2
byrbutton
displaydate
frame2
setup
currmo
curryear
stilldown
4currmo, curryear, stilldown, setup
"frame2"
B"byrbutton" = 2199
displaydate
buildcal
buttonup
buttonstilldown
buttonup
setup
frame2
byrbutton
displaydate
frame2
oHSbuildcal
frame2
currmo
curryear
stilldown
setup
buttonstilldown
setup
frame2
byrbutton
displaydate
frame2
setup
currmo
curryear
stilldown
bmobutton
A Tale of Two Border Styles
vs...
A Slow Boat to China Styles
Rounded edged objects take as much as 12 times the time to image as objects with sharp corners. For best performance, avoid their use. Click the green arrow buttons on each calendar to see the difference.
seconds to clear the text of each field without using sysLockScreen.
Clearing Fields w/o SysLockScreen
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getcurrenttime()
"However,
only took" && getTime(
) && "
TRUE,
FFALSE."
buttonup
buttonup
Please click the blue button first.
getcurrenttime
However, it only took
getTime
seconds when sysLockScreen was set to TRUE, then FALSE.
Clear w/ SysLockScreen
The 4 blue buttons clear the text of these fields in different ways. Click the yellow button to put text into the fields, then try the blue buttons to clear the text.
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currObj
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Start The Race
Which are faster, paint objects or groups?
Sometimes its better to use a paint object than a group if the group is small
and complicated. What do you think will be faster in this race?
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Sometimes it's better to use a paint object than a group if the group is small and complicated. What do you think will be faster in this race?
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"Hey, you haven't even
the race yet!"
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Hey, you haven't even run the race yet!
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And The Winner Is...
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How This Was Done
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An loop allowed each object to move 100 page units as many times as it could in 1 second until that object crossed the finish line.ge units as many times as it could.
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