Comments on: DRK : Week View Example 1

By: saurabh

saurabh — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 06:21:25 +0000

This is the calender which i want to create. It a great Help.

Saurabh

By: Bela

Bela — Thu, 03 Jul 2003 17:41:25 +0000

I’ve noticed that it’s only slow when initially selecting a date. Using shift or ctrl to select additional dates doesn’t take quite so long.

By: Kmax

Kmax — Mon, 28 Apr 2003 20:13:51 +0000

I really dont know what you are all complaining about. Here on a average computer (amd 900mhz / 256mo / xp) its all good. Near realtime. But seeing that i’m alone to see it like this, probably the “problem” is on my side ;o)

By: Matan

Matan — Sun, 27 Apr 2003 16:16:48 +0000

I noticed that the Advanced Calander Component has some bugs in selecting multiple items (at least on this example, on my computer – IE6 Win98SE):
- When you try to select multiple items (by dragging the mouse/holding SHIFT key and selecting/holding CTRL key and selecting), it only functions for earlier dates than the one selected first.

By: Jan

Jan — Sun, 27 Apr 2003 04:45:11 +0000

It is obviously some inefficient code or design. Clicking on the “next month” button redraws the entire calandar quickly, so highlighting a single day shouldn’t be slow. Someone just needs to profile the code and find out where time is being spent.

By: mike chambers

mike chambers — Sat, 26 Apr 2003 18:18:34 +0000

No, the calendar component is just particularly CPU intesnive. To be honest, I am not sure why.

mike chambers

mesh@macromedia.com

By: rob adams

rob adams — Sat, 26 Apr 2003 17:35:12 +0000

>…in shockwave you would have bitmaps

not necessarily.

at work, (on a 400mhz w/ 160RAM) this thing has almost a 2 second delay in simply highlighting a date. at home, (on a 1ghz w/ 512RAM) there is still about a half second delay in highlighting a date.

neither actionscript nor vector rendering is that slow. is there some baggage associated with being a “component”?

again, i truly appreciate the info here. i’m doing my best to not come off like a jerk…:)

rob

By: Abhishek

Abhishek — Sat, 26 Apr 2003 12:44:28 +0000

I also have used Tree component, it also takes time and is very slow. This problem intensifies if you access the swf from a remote server say access a swf in India from a server in the US. Is there any solution to that also?? Otherwise I guess I’ll have to go around with a Tree in Javascript :o(

By: llama

llama — Sat, 26 Apr 2003 11:40:17 +0000

why is it slow? because Flash is slow (compared to Director). ActionScript is the most slowest interpreted language on the world ;)
I heard, that Flash Player is playing animations in very stupid way, which was choosen for it’s simplicity to have small download size of the player. If there can be “broadband version” of the player (1-2MB), it would be much better.

By: Greg Burch

Greg Burch — Sat, 26 Apr 2003 05:40:17 +0000

Well the main thing is its all vectors, and the redrawing routines aren’t optimized too well. I would say its the redrawing of the vectors that is the most intensive….in shockwave you would have bitmaps which wouldn’t require rendering.