If I get the object properties of a button, there are about 30 numbered properties. I want to set the “Border radius” property of a button use an Any Component block. Does anyone know how to do this? I’ve tried to set the property “Border radius” of object but that doesn’t seem to do anything.

Can you get a Json from the object?

I’m not sure how that would work. I think I need to identify the correct property name but I haven’t found one that works.

I THINK those “properties” are actually the number of characters in the GUID thunkable uses to identify components. I tried going down that path few months back to no avail. But Thunkable is always changing

@drted Hmm, okay. I thought maybe they corresponded to each property in the panels in the Design tab. But I haven’t had any luck so far. I’m returning to something I did when I first started using Thunkable: trying to create a grid of thumbnail images (buttons). Cloning is SLOW. Creating buttons se…

Actually, I think my backup plan will be a grid of 9 (or 16) buttons with “next page” & “previous page” buttons to scroll between pages of thumbnails. That way I can keep it to one screen and only manually create a limited number of actual components.

Hey @tatiang . The Clone vs. Create topic is indeed a really interesting one and I have found myself spending hours trying to understand which is the best approach and it turns out that the answer is: “it depends”. The most significant factor is whether you want to show the new elements (irrespecti…

@Deluxe , very, very helpful. Thank you. I was thinking of making a benchmark project so I’ll look at yours instead. :slight_smile: Yes, good point about showing the user what they want immediately regardless of how long it might take to create the components in the background. I think the issue for…

@Deluxe I was surprised at how fast your cloning was. Four hundredths of a second for 25 rows containing three components each. In my experience, cloning just a few rows of three components can take up to ten seconds. So I had to ask myself: what could be causing the delay? And it’s pretty clear now…

I agree that the “without wait” times are a bit off so I timed them manually and it would be safe to say that you only need to add about 1.2 seconds to their on-screen result at least on my low-end Huawei P smart Z. Now that I think of it, we may want to break the analysis in two parts: a. How fast …

I just noticed something interesting about your test app’s code (barely visible at the end of your video). Why do you use the “repeat > until” loop? If you want to show the clones as they get created, insert the wait block in or right under the clone block. I don’t see why you need the “repeat > unt…

Setting a button's Border radius dynamically; cloning images speed

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drted December 27, 2020, 6:06pm 13

Rather than a fixed wait, try something like this. That way in only waits as long a necessary.

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