I noticed the same thing. I remember many years ago MS got sued for putting in code to slow down Netscape Navigator installs. Maybe they are doing the same for odbc connections??
Dan Goldberg -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dennis McGrath Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 2:04 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Speeding things up That would be a great trick!!! I've noticed that ODBC connections between MS databases (access, SQL Server) are blazing fast. But the same is not true for ODBC and non-MS databases, they are slow. Think MS is still hiding some secrets? I do. I'd love to be proven wrong! Dennis McGrath -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Goldberg Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 3:44 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Speeding things up One thing that I am hoping for in R:BASE eXtreme (v 9.0) is faster odbc access via oterro 9.0 with .net technologies. Boy, would that make my Friday!! Dan Goldberg -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of A. Razzak Memon Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 8:50 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Speeding things up At 10:45 AM 10/24/2008, Lawrence Lustig wrote: ><< >As Razzak showed us (was it 56?) additional themes in V.9, which will >be super fast loading, he mentioned that themes in 7.6 and 8.0 help to >slow down the loading of forms but that one of the fastest loading ones >is "MAC OS". > >> > >That's great. Do you still have to set themes on a form-by-form and >dialog-by-dialog basis? > >What I really long for is a SET THEME command that you could use. >All forms that had <Default> set as the themename, and all dialogs >without a specified theme, would then use the theme from the SET THEME >command. (Any time you specified another theme, of course, that would >override the default). You could even have a THEME line in the config >file. > >Why would this be great? > >1. I don't use themes now, because it would be extremely tedious to go >through an application and set the theme on 200 forms and thousands of >DIALOG, PAUSE, and CHOOSE commands. How great to be able to just SET >THEME in the program startup code. > >2. You could write your applications so that users themselves could >choose their own themes. You could save their theme selection in a >table, and they'd get their own private "look" >when they started the application. At 10:57 AM 10/24/2008, Emmitt Dove wrote: >Hmmm. > >SET THEME themename > >Then: > >DIALOG ... THEME .#THEME ??? The default setting in RBEngine9.CFG file: THEMENAME NOTHEME Then, you can also use the following PROPERTY command in forms, reports or labels: -- Forms (On After Start EEP): PROPERTY RBASE_FORM THEMENAME .#THEMENAME -- Printing Reports (On Screen): PRINT reportname WHERE whereclause + OPTION SCREEN + |WINDOW_STATE MAXIMIZED + |ZOOM_TYPE PERCENTAGE + |ZOOMPERCENT 90 + |THEMENAME .#THEMENAME + |PREVIEW_BACKGROUND_COLOR 16180442 + |PREVIEW_CAPTION Imagine the look and feel -- Printing Labels (On Screen): LBLPRINT labelname WHERE whereclause + OPTION SCREEN + |WINDOW_STATE MAXIMIZED + |ZOOM_TYPE PERCENTAGE + |ZOOMPERCENT 90 + |THEMENAME .#THEMENAME + |PREVIEW_BACKGROUND_COLOR [R234,G234,B234] + |PREVIEW_CAPTION Imagine the possibilities ====================================================== R:BASE eXtreme (v 9.0) FAQs: ====================================================== Q. How do I disable all existing themes in 200 forms? A. Use the built-in option of "Change Form(s) Theme.." Q. How do I assign new themes for all 200 forms? A. Use the built-in option of "Change Form(s) Theme.." Here's how: 01. www.rbaseXtreme.com/forms/RBASE_eXtreme.png 02. www.rbaseXtreme.com/forms/RBG9_Forms_01.png 03. www.rbaseXtreme.com/forms/RBG9_Forms_02.png 04. www.rbaseXtreme.com/forms/RBG9_Forms_03.png 05. www.rbaseXtreme.com/forms/RBG9_Forms_04.png Have fun! Very Best R:egards, Razzak.
