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From: jcocon@hubcap.clemson.edu (james c oconnor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Tab speed in 2.0 slow, can fix?
Message-ID: <13280@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Date: 25 Feb 91 14:19:00 GMT
Organization: Clemson University, Clemson, SC
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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