Revolution is very slow to refresh fields. How can I speed it up?

[Eric Colvin]

I¹ve just started playing with Revolution. I was an enthusiast for Hypercard
in a previous life.

One thing I¹ve hit upon early on that frustrates me a little.  Though
Revolution is far newer, and ought to be faster since it loads into memory
rather than writing to disk, I find it way slower at refreshing text fields
than Hypercard ever was.

I wrote the following counting routine (as a speed test to measure the
difference between writing to a variable and writing to a field).  However,
what I learned was that ­ on my computer, at any rate ­ Revolution only
refreshes its text fields slightly more than once a second. When I run the
same script in Hypercard, the counting field whirs through changes faster
than a gas pump - with every new number displayed as it¹s put into the
field.  Revolution only shows me about one figure in every twenty five or so
­ despite the fact that the routine tells the field to display every
consecutive number from 1 to 300.

Just add this script to a locked text field, and click on it, to see what
I¹m talking about:

on mouseup
  -- COUNT TO 300
  put the ticks into startTime
  repeat with i = 1 to 300
    put 1 + line 1 of me into line 1 of me
  end repeat
  put the ticks - starttime into stopTime1
  put stopTime1 into word 1 of line 3 of me
  put the ticks into startTime
  put me into testVar
  
  -- NOW JUST SHOW MULTIPLES OF TEN
  repeat with i = 1 to 300
    put 1 + line 2 of testVar into line 2 of testVar
    if i mod 10 = 0 then put line 2 of testVar into line 2 of me
  end repeat
  put line 2 of testVar into line 2 of me
  put the ticks - startTime into stopTime2
  put stopTime1 & " : " & stopTime2 into line 3 of me
end mouseup

Surely there must be some way I can persuade the field to refresh more
frequently and and display everything put into the field?

Thanks for your suggestions,



Eric Colvin
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