Re: Flickering cursor
Re: Flickering cursor
- Subject: Re: Flickering cursor
- From: AppleScript Guru <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2001 00:19:55 -0400
Matt,
on 10/5/01 4:38 PM, you said:
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text files). Recently, I have made some kind of change while fixing a bug
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that has slowed down the script processing significantly. At first, I
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thought the slow down might have just been due to something on my system
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(such as using IE verses Netscape), but I experience the same slow down on
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the target machine (and mine with all other apps closed).
---> Is your script switching the front most app back and forth between
FileMaker and the script? When scripted, some applications perform faster
when they are in the front.
For example, when scripting FileMaker Pro, it's better to have FileMaker in
the front for certain commands. I suggest adding activate commands at
various points in your script to see if it speeds up the process. If
FileMaker is in the front and your script seems slow, have the script bring
itself back to the front. If the script is in the front and it's slow, have
it bring FileMaker back to the front.
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I've noticed the rapid changing of the
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cursor from an arrow to the spinning beach ball. I use two OSAX (Dialog
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Director and ACME Script Widgets 2.5.2) and dump results to Filemaker every
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few minutes. It seems like it should stay on the beach ball until the
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script finishes, but the constant flickering back and forth has me wondering
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if there could be something inherently wrong in my logic which is causing
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this. Is this flickering a normal thing?
---> A flickering cursor between the beach ball and an arrow is common.
Besides, unless you're doing something with a cursor manipulating scripting
addition, I don't believe you can affect the look of the cursor with your
code.
-Ben
Benjamin S. Waldie
Write Track Media
(AppleScript GuRu)
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