Has anyone else developed a codebook app with an extensive menu system? An app I am working on has 161 classes in amenus (popups, pads and bars) and the load time is simply unacceptable. It takes the app an average of 14 seconds to load--and that's on a PIII 500 w/128MB of RAM and a 100Mb network connection. Running on slower machines the time doubles or triples. In addition the menus system is pulling huge amounts of data over the network. For comparison, the app with the menus enabled pulls a total of approximately 25MB of data to load. Without any menus enabled it's about 3.5MB of data. YAG, CTB, Ed? Are there any optimizations that can speed this up? Unless I can come up with a major performance boost I think I'll just deep six the object oriented menu system and forego all the nice bells and whistles that come with it.

Michael G. Emmons

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