Astonishing speed difference - can't find it documented
Astonishing speed difference - can't find it documented
- Subject: Astonishing speed difference - can't find it documented
- From: Jay <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 01:30:53 -0700
Is this common application behavior? I can't find any documentation
anywhere, and it's driving me crazy, not to mention spending way too
much time on it. This time I'm working with Tex-Edit Plus.
First the results, using exactly the same script in different ways
(and I'll never* start with 100 reps again) are:
'run script file bla bla' inside TE+ tell block-->43 seconds (wow!)
'run script file bla bla' outside any tell block-->955 seconds (long
enough to eat lunch)
Simple applet-->163 seconds
Why the he
! does the script run so much faster when the run script
command is inside the target applications tell block? (results using
the same script in Smile are similar) (??)
Script #1 is a simple applet to run script #3
Script #2 is a simple applet to run script #3 (only the last few lines
are different than #1, so that's all I'll show of it).
Script #3 is the target script file for applet #1 and applet #2, and was
simply stripped of its "on run
end run" lines to create the simple
applet tested above.
Note the two lines in script #3:
'tell me to activate'
'display dialog bla bla'
Should activate the calling applet to display the dialog - if the
'run script' command is inside TE+'s tell block it doesn't! Instead,
Tex-Edit Plus stays in front and handles the dialog!? (so does Smile
too)
--Script #1
set dataToPass to "This is my Data."
set myLoc to path to me as string
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ":"
set myFold to text items 1 through -2 of myLoc as string
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {""}
tell application "Tex-Edit Plus"
launch
activate
run script file (myFold & ":TE+TestRS") with parameters {dataToPass}
end tell
--Script #2
activate
end tell
run script file (myFold & ":TE+TestRS") with parameters {dataToPass}
--Script #3
on run {cardboard}
tell application "Tex-Edit Plus"
set t1 to the ticks
repeat 100 times
tell window 1
repeat with asciiNum from 1 to 255
set the selection to ASCII character asciiNum
end repeat
set the selection to cardboard
end tell
end repeat
set t2 to the ticks
set et to t2 - t1
end tell
tell me to activate
display dialog et buttons {"OK"} default button 1
end run
JAY
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