[JW Lua] FCUI:IsFontAvailable() very slow on Fin25 / V0.50 - factor 200

[Jan Angermüller]

Yes, you're right. It seems to be a problem only when a font name isn't 
found.
My factor of 200 was a mixture of some fonts found and some not.
Thanks, Jari!

Best,
Jan

Am 08.08.2017 um 21:10 schrieb Jari Williamsson:
> Jan,
>
> On Windows, it seems like the API is completely broken when the font 
> name isn't found. In my tests, it's about 1,000 times slower in that 
> particular case, on Windows! I'll let MM know.
>
> On the Mac, the API solution is actually faster than my implementation.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Jari Williamsson
>
>
> On 2017-08-08 13:13, Jan Angermüller wrote:
>> Jari,
>>
>> thanks a lot for the huge update!
>>
>>  >FCUI:IsFontAvailable() uses the new Finale 25 PDK API for checking 
>> font availability, rather than the using system calls. (Earlier 
>> Finale versions still uses the old implementation.)
>>
>> It comes with an enormous speed deficit on Fin25 - the factor is 
>> about 200.
>> In all my plugins I am checking about 1000 fonts (including their 
>> bold, italic, bold italic derivatives) for availability on the 
>> system. It takes about 100 milliseconds on Fin2014, but about 20 
>> seconds on Fin25.
>> Could you please make the old font check also available by option for 
>> Fin25?
>>
>> Best,
>> Jan
>>
>>
>>
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