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From: edmoy@opal.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Slow Stack
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Date: Mon, 26-Oct-87 20:44:21 EST
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Posted: Mon Oct 26 20:44:21 1987
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I'm new to HyperCard'ing and have been playing with other peoples stacks.
I just downloaded one from CompuServe that is called Data Library Browser,
that allows you to takes scans of the data libraries and convert them to
cards.  Anyways, I ran scans on about 5 or 6 data libraries in MACUS,
going back a year or so.  After spending all evening loading these in
(slow, but this is not the slowness I'm refering to), the stack has 981
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).

Edward Moy
Academic Computing Services
University of California
Berkeley, CA  94720

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