Hi Steve Wow! It looks as though you have cracked it! Fantastic...
There is definitely a beer waiting for you in London Bridge should you ever be there!!! Like Ben, I would be very keen to see the detailed changes you made, if that were at all possible. Incidentally, were you bothered by the resizing speed? I don't think it's a showstopper for us given the many other good things that come from using FlexMDI, it's still a bit of a shame. Fast non-live resizing would be better than ultra-slow resizing but in my travels I did find this example of reasonably fast live resizing, so perhaps it would be possible in FlexMDI at some point. http://www.softcapital.com/labs/demo/radarlite.html Given that we're just doing our very first flex project we probably wouldn't be the best people to attempt that though!!! Cheers Julian --- In [email protected], "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 >
