Thanks for letting me know. I did manage to do what I mentioned in the last
email. Time to do some testing with real world data!

Ben

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 7:45 PM, John Ours <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> 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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