Internal List Object Beta

Jax made a great object called the Please login to see this link., but it was mainly for mathematical purposes and not an actual list object replacement. The List object itself is slow when you need to be fast because it, being a Windows control, likes to redraw when you modify it. Even when it is set to invisible, it still takes time to modify the list.

That is why I made the Internal List Object - it is much much faster than the List object and it has some the same features. It's in beta now because I want to find the issues before I finish the rest of it.

You can download the current Beta here: Please login to see this link.
Make sure to check the example and see how the list object compares to this extension.

Please test it and let me know of any issues or missing features it may have.

Maybe in the future, but I have to learn some Actionscript first.

Sure, I've never been good with graphics... :crazy:

Just so everyone knows, I'm nearly done adding saving and loading features with both files and strings. You can use custom delimiters (not just the new line character) and custom escape characters should the delimiter or escape character already be in an item.

If there are other request besides sorting (which I will do) please let me know.

Unicode maybe, but text alignment...? This extension is intentionally designed NOT to make a visible list; it's all inside the extension. Anyway, you can easily fake it because in the next version I have an option to get the list as a string, and you can put it in a string object and set up the interface any way you like. Here is an example I did just for you:
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EDIT: Update and timing

I modified the example MFA to test the times for precise milliseconds (thanks to TimeX object) and here are the results:
Visible List Object: 9266 ms / 9.3 seconds
Invisible List Object: 3666 ms / 3.7 seconds
Internal List Object Extension: So fast that it was less than 1 ms (TimeX gave me 0 ms)
Internal List Object with 1,000,000 loops: 967 ms

Here is the latest beta of the Internal List Object:
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New features:
-Save and Load to/from files with custom item delimiters and escape characters
-Expression to get list as a string with custom delimiter and escape character, and an action to load a list from a string in the same fashion.
-Delimiters and escape characters can be more than one character long
-Miscellaneous changes (beta dialog box is gone, the extension is more stable)

The extension is done, it just needs the icon. [size:8pt]*pokes Jaffob*[/size]

I am very grateful to Pharanygitis, who has asked to port the extension to flash.

Hm, I'll fix that real quick. It won't change any functionality other than allowing you to not use escape characters.

EDIT: Pre-release link:
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Yes, I am fixing typos here and there.

Ham: Crashes with large number of items? The limit on the number of items should be 2^32, and if you're reaching that limit I am surprised that my extension is the only thing crashing. Just how many items did you have to make the crash occur? If it is a much lower number then I will have to investigate.

It did not crash or stop working, you are just doing a lot of loops. Watching the memory usage in Task Manager, it gets up to a high number, resets, gets up even higher, resets, etc. I believe this is normal as it tries to allocate more and more space for you.

It does not crash, it just freezes while it tries to perform your commands

It does not crash for me, but it used 50% CPU the whole time.

"Stopped Working" does not always mean it has crashed; it can also happen when you try to click in the window when it is frozen during a long calculation or loop.