slow pop up menu

[ITOjim]

All,

created an activity log dbase and have a couple of fields where I am using a pop up menu from a value list. The problem is that while it all works, it is extremely slow.

As I go from field to field it takes 3+- seconds for the menu to appear and once you make a selection it takes a second or two to do anything.

Example

Field Name:Problem_type

Field Type: Text, Indexed, By Value List, Allow Overide

Field Format: Pop-up List - Display Values from Value List (use custom values)

Value List: Problem Types

Contains:

Application

CATV

Mechanical

Network

Printing

Security

Server

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I dont believe my machine is the problem, although I am running Norton and Aluria software. I have a Dell Workstation w/1GRAM-twin Xeon-136G free harddrive.

I am not sharing anything yet, I am the only person accessing data. I do not have any scripts running, and I am wearing my lucky socks.

But it takes ~3seconds when I tab into this field before anything happens (like the list popping up). When I make a selection it takes ~1 second before it moves onto the next field.

Any ideas?

Jim

[Mike D.]

Jim,

From my experience, Pop-Up Menu is faster than Pop-Up List. The time lag you are describing is what I saw when using the List rather than Menu.

One thought, are you using the latest version of 7 (7.03)?

HTH, Mike

[Mike D.]

Jim,

From my experience, Pop-Up Menu is faster than Pop-Up List. The time lag you are describing is what I saw when using the List rather than Menu.

One thought, are you using the latest version of 7 (7.03)?

HTH, Mike

[dkemme]

Pop up lists are SLOW in FM7 with no real good solutions, except to hope for improvement in future versions.

[dkemme]

Pop up lists are SLOW in FM7 with no real good solutions, except to hope for improvement in future versions.

[ITOjim]

I updated to Rev 7.04- opened a soda and had 1/2 of it go on my keyboard- and we are still slow. Slower since most of the key's on the left side are stickey. (anyone know a good way to clean a KB?)

I noticed the difference between the two types of menus (menu & list) as well. what is the rule of thumb for using one over another?

[Vaughan]

"I updated to Rev 7.04..."

That's interesting... there is no v4 update!

Time to check and conform versions...

[ITOjim]

Sorry, it was 7.03 with a caffeen enhanced add on, but that still doesnt explain the issue.

I redesigned one of the pages to get away for the need of a menu/list but I need something that works at normal speed for the others.

Any ideas?

Jim