Re: Migrating to Harbour
Posted:
Fri Dec 12, 2014 8:03 am
by Antonio Linares
Enrico,
With my change your code is working fine here
I don't understand why it does not work fine for you there
Re: Migrating to Harbour
Posted:
Fri Dec 12, 2014 8:04 am
by Antonio Linares
Also, I remind you that MemoLine() is very slow. So if you plan to get the lines of a large text, you should avoid it.
We have code in FWH for reading text lines much much faster
Re: Migrating to Harbour
Posted:
Fri Dec 12, 2014 9:57 am
by Enrico Maria Giordano
Antonio,
Antonio Linares wrote:Enrico,
With my change your code is working fine here
I don't understand why it does not work fine for you there
It's working, but it's very slow as it doesn't use nPos parameter (reading the source code, it's not supported).
EMG
Re: Migrating to Harbour
Posted:
Fri Dec 12, 2014 9:58 am
by Enrico Maria Giordano
Antonio,
Antonio Linares wrote:Also, I remind you that MemoLine() is very slow. So if you plan to get the lines of a large text, you should avoid it.
We have code in FWH for reading text lines much much faster
It's very fast in xHarbour using nPos parameter. I'm not going to change all my code only to test Harbour, sorry.
EMG
Re: Migrating to Harbour
Posted:
Fri Dec 12, 2014 1:59 pm
by Rick Lipkin
Enrico
I have been using some similar ( xHarbour ) code to pull out text stored in a Sql Memo field .. I do not know if it would make any difference in Harbour or not or whether it would be faster. As you can see, I do not pass any other parameters to MemoLine other than the text, the number of characters I wish to print and the line.
Rick Lipkin
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cComment := oRs:Fields("Comment"):Value
// Print comments
nLinCnt := MlCount( cComment, 70 ) // 110
IF nLinCnt > 0
FOR x := 1 to nLinCnt
cText := MemoLine( cComment, 70, x ) // 110
oPrint:Say( LINE,(oPrint:nHorzRes()*.02), cText, oFont10 )
Line += oFont10:nHeight
NEXT
Endif
Re: Migrating to Harbour
Posted:
Fri Dec 12, 2014 2:35 pm
by Enrico Maria Giordano
Rick,
I know, but it would be very slow.
EMG
Re: Migrating to Harbour
Posted:
Fri Dec 12, 2014 7:45 pm
by TimStone
EMG,
I use Harbour with FWH and MSVC 2013 ... and I have absolutely no speed issues with memos.
My clients add labor ( often a significant amount ) descriptions to invoices, plus all the disclaimers, etc. are all done with memo text ( memo fields ).
The display is instantaneous. The printing is also incredibly fast.
I don't know what you are doing, but as Antonio said, I see no reason why it should be slow.
Tim
Re: Migrating to Harbour
Posted:
Fri Dec 12, 2014 9:22 pm
by Enrico Maria Giordano
Tim,
this is a sample:
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FUNCTION MAIN()
LOCAL cTxt := REPLICATE( "This is a test" + CHR( 13 ) + CHR( 10 ), 10000 )
LOCAL cNew := ""
LOCAL nLines
LOCAL nSec
LOCAL i
nLines = MLCOUNT( cTxt, 1024, , .F., .T. )
? "Lines:", LTRIM( STR( nLines ) )
?
nSec = SECONDS()
FOR i = 1 TO nLines
cNew += ALLTRIM( MEMOLINE( cTxt, 1024, i, , .F., .T. ) ) + CHR( 13 ) + CHR( 10 )
NEXT
? "Seconds:", SECONDS() - nSec
nLines = MLCOUNT( cNew, 1024, , .F., .T. )
? "Lines:", LTRIM( STR( nLines ) )
RETURN NIL
With parameter nPos (supported by xHarbour) it lasts 0.00 seconds.
EMG
Re: Migrating to Harbour
Posted:
Sat Dec 13, 2014 12:23 am
by TimStone
Enrico,
I will admit I do not test for elapsed time. That is way too theoretical for me. I look at "real world" speeds and that is judged by my clients evaluation of performance.
So, for printing a memo text:
FOR lx := 1 TO MLCount( oTrec:rectxt, 60,, .t. )
PAGEHEAD( oPrn, aHead )
oPrn:Say( nRow, 2 * nCsp, MEMOLINE( oTrec:rectxt, 60, lx,, .t. ), oFnorm )
nRow += nRsp
NEXT
Where rectxt is the memo field in the record. I find that this certainly works faster than a laser printer can push it out.
As for looking at, and editing, the text in a record, I have a multi-line get that I use with the MEMO variable. It is "instant loading". That means, as I browse up and down a list, the memo is displayed ( along with the other data fields ) in the upper half of the dialog. The display in instantaneous.
Tim
Re: Migrating to Harbour
Posted:
Sat Dec 13, 2014 5:45 am
by Antonio Linares
Enrico,
Here is the source code for MemoLine():
https://github.com/harbour/core/blob/master/src/rtl/mlcfunc.c/* MemoLine( <cString>, [ <nLineLength>=79 ],
* [ <nLineNumber>=1 ],
* [ <nTabSize>=4 ], [ <lWrap>=.T. ],
* [ <cEOL>|<acEOLs> ] ) -> <cLine>
*/
So it seems as it does not support the same parameters as xHarbour. We could compare xHarbour and Harbour and propose to enhance such function as you need it.
Re: Migrating to Harbour
Posted:
Sat Dec 13, 2014 9:32 am
by Enrico Maria Giordano
Tim,
TimStone wrote:I will admit I do not test for elapsed time. That is way too theoretical for me.
It's not theoretical for me. It's been the solution to a specific slowness problem.
EMG
Re: Migrating to Harbour
Posted:
Sat Dec 13, 2014 9:35 am
by Antonio Linares
Enrico,
Now we need to get the xHarbour MemoLine() source code
Do you have it at hand ?
Re: Migrating to Harbour
Posted:
Sat Dec 13, 2014 10:02 am
by Antonio Linares
Enrico,
have you compared it with Harbour's one ?