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#1 2008-04-26 11:43:24
Exponential slow down when importing a set of images.
I tend to use many costumes and backgrounds.
I drag and drop a set of images right into scratch.
Importing the first dozen or so goes pretty fast, then it gradually slows down to about half as fast, then half as fast... I can import about 60 within an hour a so, but much more then that- it starts taking over night or days or weeks...
Right now I'm stuck at 151, I think it's been at that image for over an hour- (UPDATE: ~7 hours later, it's still at 151... at this rate it may not finish this year.) I'm shooting for 288.
http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/AddZero/150731 (this one has 36, but I also have images for when it rotates I'm trying to add.)
I try to keep my image file sizes small... These png images are about 10kb each. (after importing scratch reports them as 26kb each then if I edit them, they're about 50kb. Weird, that's another issue though.)
Perhaps scratch has to re-process every image every time a new one is added?
Is there another way I should be using?
Thanks for scratch. It's so fun to play and learn with.
Last edited by AddZero (2008-04-26 18:58:39)
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#2 2008-04-26 13:13:00
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Re: Exponential slow down when importing a set of images.
i don't know.
It's true. I do love Scratch.
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#4 2008-05-05 20:12:32
Re: Exponential slow down when importing a set of images.
AddZero wrote:
I tend to use many costumes and backgrounds.
I drag and drop a set of images right into scratch.
Importing the first dozen or so goes pretty fast, then it gradually slows down to about half as fast, then half as fast... I can import about 60 within an hour a so, but much more then that- it starts taking over night or days or weeks...
Right now I'm stuck at 151, I think it's been at that image for over an hour- (UPDATE: ~7 hours later, it's still at 151... at this rate it may not finish this year.) I'm shooting for 288.
http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/AddZero/150731 (this one has 36, but I also have images for when it rotates I'm trying to add.)
I try to keep my image file sizes small... These png images are about 10kb each. (after importing scratch reports them as 26kb each then if I edit them, they're about 50kb. Weird, that's another issue though.)
Perhaps scratch has to re-process every image every time a new one is added?
Is there another way I should be using?
Thanks for scratch. It's so fun to play and learn with.
I think you've said somewhere that you're an Ubuntu user. My experience with Xubuntu was brief and none too pleasant (the computer didn't have internet access and I couldn't get packages), but I have no problem with this sort of thing on XP. By the way, exactly how do you get Scratch on an open-source OS? It's one of the reasons I stopped using Ubuntu.
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