Hi Steve, That is great to hear! Not only that you got things working but that you did so on your own. :) I would love to see (and possibly incorporate) the enhancements you made so if you're willing/able to share them please send them my way. We give credit where credit is due and are always happy to see improvements to the code, no matter where they come from. You can reach me at ben.clinkinbeard on Google's email service. :)
Thanks! Ben On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 1:20 PM, steve.klee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Julian- > > We are also using the MDI library for a large ERP-style application > and experienced the same issue you are describing. The problem for > us related to the "updateStyles()" method in the MDIWindow class in > the library. It seems when the code was checking for "hasFocus" > there was a lot of unnecessary (for our needs anyways) re-setting of > styles using the ".setStyle" notation. This is a slow operation when > you have windows with a lot of controls or heavy controls like the > DataGrid. We made modifications to the MDIWindow class because we > could not edit what we needed through sub-classing because > the "_hasFocus" stuff wasn't accessible. So we made it accessible > then overwrote it in a new sub-class that doesn't do anything (omits > the "updateStyles()" call. But this made the min,max,resize window > controls out of whack because they weren't getting updated. So we > solved that issue by sub-classing the MDIWindowControlsContainer and > overriding "updateDisplayList" to position everything correctly no > matter what state the window was in. > > After making these changes everything was superfast as far as > switching focus between windows, tiling windows, minimizing, > maximizing, no matter how many controls or rows/columns for the > datagrids. So, we made our changes for our specific needs which are > probably not suitable for everyone, but if you minimize or eliminate > the unnnecessary calls to "updateStyles()" in MDIWindow you should > see a major improvement. Especially without having to switch to > another library or write something on your own. The FlexMDI is a > great library. > > HTH- > Steve > > >
