Digital Workshop

Hi

I am using the same set of scripts over and over in a single pub page, each time changing the variables (for example, adding a letter-a,b,c, etc.-to create unique variables for each object in the scripts).

The scripts are pieced together from the contributions of others, and I'm afraid I never quite understood them. But I have been able to awkwardly adapt them never-the-less. I suspect my poor understanding of arrays and loops, opening, reading textObj lines, fields, has resulted in a very inefficient adaptation, a lot of extra overhead and a multitude of unecessary script actions and storage files. The pub's runtime screen for this page is slow and the resulting pub can crash.

I wonder if anyone with capable scripting skills could take a look at the attached scripts and suggest steps I could take to fix/combine them. Even if some scripts can't be combined, being able to write the "save" variable (s) into one text file, instead of using 50 standard Opus save to text file and 50 standard Opus read from text file actions would be a big reduction of overhead (here's that Open txtObj, read line or field, store in next line complexity that is way over my head). Given my limited understanding of arrays, loops, creating, reading from txtObj's, please detail suggestions and illustrate with examples.

I would appreciate any assistance.

Kind Regards,

will put together a quick video tutorial for this...

Areas you can find in the help files that are of interest are "External Scripts", and "Functions"

Will put together a brief how-to video.

Planned for Sat 17th earliest, on my 4 days on at work so a bit busy till then.

Hi eomc40

Thank you very much.

In fact, the only efficient and economic script that is on this pub page is for line rotation, which you helped me create. I wish I understood it well enough to replicate for the other cloned symbols (squares, circles, other graphic objects, a few of which require a way to save and reset transparency state in addition to their position).

The line script is elegantly simple and all line data (size, angle, position) are saved to one text file. Unfortunately, even though I've done a lot of reading and tried many times to apply it and the underlying concepts, I'm unsuccessful.

If only I could figure out how to script the numerous other symbols similar to the lines. Then I would have one script for all objects and one storage text file for all data. That would cut down the overhead, make for quicker page loading and actions and avoid crashes.

(eomc40: If you would like to see a cut down version of the .imp file with the actual objects and scripts, I can either attach a zipped file to an e-mail or provide a URL to download the zip file. I don't want to post the .imp on the Forum and, unfortunately, can't use Forum's private messaging, since it is disabled.

So, if it would be helpful for you to see the objects and their scripts, please use my e-mail address below to send me your e-mail address and your preference for e-mail attachment or URL.)

Again, thank you for your assistance.

Kind Regards,