Tom no problem. If you find that this is highly reproducible.... I¹d be interested to know how the operating system drag¹ is generated.
Rick Winscot On 5/27/09 9:00 AM, "Tom McNeer" <tmcn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Rick and Fotis, > > Thanks for your suggestions. It was the fact that none of the visual/redrawing > actions you discuss were going on that mystified me. The problem was > elsewhere. > > And Rick, I didn't post code because the problem seemed to involve the > interaction of a whole stack of view components. > > The problem, however, was not in the Flex application at all, but rather in > some other things that were going on with the machine. What appeared to be a > rather constant high usage from Flex was in fact a rather normal spike in CPU > usage from the Flex app, that under normal conditions would be momentary. > Other processes were causing the Flex app to hang fire, making it seem as if > Flex was creating a constant load. > > Thanks again for your suggestions. And I apologize for misinterpreting the > problem. > > But ... it was a messy problem. Just glad I finally figured out what was > happening. >