On Mar 10, 2010, at 5:40 PM, Benjamin Chew wrote:

> Thanks for the insight. I think I'm still going to try it out and see how it 
> works for me. 
> 
> How you did you get the AjaxUpdate to fire on mouseover? I've been fudging 
> around with this for a couple of days now and I'm at the point where I'm 
> writing my own Ajax component using bits of AjaxUpdateLink.
> 

The project I did that on wasn't WO...I was using jQuery for ajax.  I don't 
know offhand how to coerce the Wonder stuff into firing onmouseover.  





> Ben
> 
> On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 10:22 PM, John Ours <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Mar 9, 2010, at 7:04 PM, Benjamin Chew wrote:
> 
> >
> > I've been down this road before.  In practice the callback is too slow and 
> > the menu isn't really usable.  IME if you have a hierarchy that's that big 
> > you're best to switch to another paradigm like a treeview.
> >
> > John
> >
> > Hmm... even if you're just requesting one sub-category at a time in a 
> > simple query?
> >
> > Ben
> 
> 
> Yep.  It's not the time on the server that gets you, it's the round trip and 
> it just made the menu feel to "sluggish" for my taste.  Plus the callback is 
> fired over and over as the user drags the mouse down the menu.
> 
> I suppose you could pull it off by triggering the callback on click and using 
> some clever loading graphics...or maybe loading the hierarchy one level ahead 
> or something...just didn't work for me.
> 

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