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From: john@felix.UUCP (John Gilbert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Slow Stack
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Date: Wed, 28-Oct-87 15:53:10 EST
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Posted: Wed Oct 28 15:53:10 1987
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In article <5633@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> edmoy@opal.berkeley.edu() writes:

>cards, totalling 570 K.  The main background contains 10 fields and 27
>buttons.  The Find operation seems to be reasonably quick, given the
>size of the stack, but using the arrows to page through the cards is
>really slow!  It takes over a minute to go to the next card on a Mac+
>with a HD20 SC.  Is this typical of HyperCard, or is this stack somehow
>braindamaged?  The Cover button takes you to the front cover in just a
>few seconds (it has a different background with no buttons or fields, but
>the card itself has 32 buttons).

Something else you might try is entering:

   show all cards

in the message box (click the mouse to stop it at any time).  If this is quick,
then the next and previous buttons are doing something else as well to make
it slow.  You might also examine the scripts for the card, background and
stack to see if they are handling either openCard, closeCard messages.

Compacting your stack may help, but I suspect additional processing
is in the way here.

--
John Gilbert
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