if there is a callback function too filllist() and it should be maybe you should add 50 rows then show it, then in callback add another 50 and so on.
On Jan 29, 9:28 am, Jörn Zaefferer <joern.zaeffe...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I recommend hard limiting the items loaded from the server, in > combination with scrolling. For example, load 100 items (should be > fast enough), but display only 10. The other 90 can be checked by > scrolling, while it is rather obvious that its easier to reduce the > list by typing more. > > Jörn > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Saumin <saumin.pa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > hi, > > we are using the autocomplete plugin by bassistance.de. Our business > > people want the users to search database with half a million rows. We > > have minChars set as 3, but then also some combinations get around > > 5000 rows. In that case, the user has to wait for at least 20+ > > seconds. I know that the database query comes back with results in > > less than 1 second, but the function filllist() takes lot of time as > > there are lot of records. Is there anything somebody can suggest to > > make it load faster? If not, i wanted to introduce paging in this > > control. Has this been done? I would really appreciate a quick > > response. > > > Thanks!