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From: a347@mindlink.UUCP (John Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: More slow things in HC 2.0
Message-ID: <4157@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 17 Dec 90 20:03:33 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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In article <47417@apple.Apple.COM> jdevoto@apple.com
(Jeanne A. E. DeVoto) writes
> A card with 28 fields *will* display slow response when moving
> from field to field. I'd recommend you take a serious look at
> your stack design; it's usually fairly simple to reduce the number
> of fields by combining several fields into one and using chunk
> expressions to address the combined components.

Tabbing certainly will be slow.  Considering that lots of people are using
HyperCard to build database front ends, this would
be a good area to check when tuning the performance of the
next HyperCard upgrade.  HyperCard 2.0 does a *lot* of
unnecessary processing each time the user presses the Tab key.

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