<I><FONT COLOR="#663300">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.

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Hi Michael:

The OO Menu system has been "deep sixed" on a couple of projects that I know of ... Ed did it I know for a fact for one of his clients. I'm sure he'll chime in here quite soon and elighten you on the gotchas he ran into. From what I hear he is "really" busy ... I just wanted to let you know that the "deep six" approach is not necessarily a bad one in your situation and has been done before ... and it didn't look real difficult either.

Have a nice one,

CT

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