At 10:59 AM 2002-11-28 +0000, you wrote:
Never put so many items in a list. It will take ages to populate and the user can do nothong with that many items. If you have that many items in the database, its another thing altogether. I display about 10 or so at any one time. The key is to give the user a very easy and fast way to get to the record he needs to view. Either by page up/down or a lookup field.> will it display and allow lookup in a list quicklyI think this is at the crux of our "discussion" :-) I try not to put 10000 items in a list even on a PC app - it is far too slow a way to find something. You need some other way of doing that (eg looking up by barcodes, descriptions etc) At 1 second per group of 10 items, it will take 1000 seconds or more than 16 minutes to go through the entire list. Even if you can see 100 at a time, there are normally quicker ways to find things.
regards
--
For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
