> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael
> Nordstrom
> Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2003 12:36 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: document list refresh versus document parsing time
>
> On Sat, Jul 19, 2003, Dennis McCunney wrote:
>
> > It's almost as though the viewer is doing a refresh documents
> > operation despite the Manual Update setting, rather than simply
> > redisplaying the info in the plkrdoclist file.
>
> Well, my initial tests indicates that the slower response is because
> of the new library form. The 1.2 version used a different library form
> that formatted the document data "dynamically" while the new library
> form does this for *all* documents when you open the library form,

Ohhhh.  Yes, that would explain things...

> i.e. if you have a lot of documents (regadless whether they are in
> RAM or on an external card) it will take a while (it might just take
> 3-5 clock ticks per entry, but if you have 300 documents then the
> total time will still be quite long.)

And it is, to the point where I backed off to the 1.2 version until a
fix was identified.  A fair bit of what's in my Plucker document list is
technical documentation I put on the Visor as an alternative to carrying
around fat manuals.  If I need to look at it, I'm usually in a hurry.

> I did a quick hack that would format the document data only when
> rendering it to screen and that increased the speed quite a lot.
> The first time you access the document library there will be a
> short delay when it copies the data from PlkrDocList to an internal
> list; but after that it will display the documents without any
> delay at all...

Way cool.  Let us know when a beta with this mod is available for
download.  I'm salivating...

Thanks again, Mike, for timely and effective assistance.

> /Mike
______
Dennis

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