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From: steele@unc.cs.unc.edu (Oliver Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Slow Stack
Message-ID: <1778@unc.cs.unc.edu>
Date: Tue, 27-Oct-87 10:42:06 EST
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Posted: Tue Oct 27 10:42:06 1987
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Reply-To: steele@unc.UUCP (Oliver Steele)
Organization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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edmoy@opal.berkeley.edu() writes:
>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

No, this isn't typical.  Try "Compact Stack" from the file menu (you may
have to hold down the command key when you click to see the item), and
if this fails try "Save a copy as..." and use the copy (this probably won't
work if "Compact Stack" didn't), and if this fails run DiskExpress on
your HD20SC (this almost definitely won't create a speedup as dramatic as
the one you need, but it's worth doing anyway).

Unless it took over a minute to page with the arrows when the stack was
real small.  If the time didn't increase as you added cards, there's
probably just a lot of slow script-work going on to rearrange the
environment whenever you close or open a card (you do both when you move
from one to another), and there's nothing you can do about it short of
trying to debug someone elses scripts.

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