fmgo12 Memory problem...

[Prompt]

Hello everyone, I’ve developed iPad application on my pc, I’ve used FileMaker Pro Dev. 12.0v3. My application includes 37 tables, 85 forms, 83 scripts and about 255 global variables that I define by start-up script. Why 255 global variables? Because I use them as labels form to manage localize language version. Yesterday I’ve uploaded application on my iPad: model 3 with iOS 7.1, 16 Gb and 5,3 Gb memory free. I have tried to run it with FMPro 12 before then with FMPro 13. I have got a lot of problems: • Buttons that did not executed their script command associated • uncompleted rendering: forms with white area • Labels changed • and so on… Before to think… to my suicide could you give me some suggestion?

[Rgordon]

Probably not the answer you want to hear but I think you are trying to get a solution that might be better designed for a computer crammed onto an iPad. Just because it might run well on a PC doesn't mean it will run well on an iPad. The newer iPads have only 1 Gb of ram. I suspect you probably are having memory problems running this large solution. I use a program called system status to keep track of the amount of ram being used on an iPad. Using variables whenever possible is a good start on optimizing your solution. A while back I had a parsing process that took a very long time to run. I made one change where I used a variable instead of a global field and it ran 37 times faster.