[mobile-devel] Bible Text Rendering Speed, SR Beta 1

SonWon sonwon.1 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 6 20:47:24 MST 2009


I had the Strong's numbers turned off so they do not show.

6 seconds for the progress bar at the bottom of the screen.

Sounds like the Sword engine is to slow then. Is there something we can 
do about the Sword engine?


David Trotz wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> When I go to Mark 12:12 it takes 6 seconds to render. I believe this 
>> is a quirk of my device. What I find puzzling is I have an old Bible 
>> Reader program (PPC 2003) I wrote several years ago and it renders 
>> the same text in less than a second. KJV with Strongs in both 
>> examples. Strongs is turned off and both are loaded to the storage card.
> 6 Seconds for any text to show at all? or 6 seconds for the progress 
> bar at the bottom of the screen to get to 100%?
> I just tested it on mine, it takes about 4-5 seconds to show anything 
> at all. I can look more into why this is but part is the slowness of 
> the SWORD engine on these devices, second is the swapping of fonts, 
> strongs numbers requires a font switch every other word, but that 
> still is pretty fast otherwise scrolling would be a bear.
>
> -- 
> David
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