Poor performance with forms designer

[Patrick Ireland]

Has anyone else had a very very slow encounter with the forms designer?
I have a tab control with about 575 controls on a single page of the
tab. I get terrible IDE performance doing any kind of forms design with
this application. I've got 256MB and a 233 and have never seen such
poor performance out of the Beta 1 as with this app.

Another question:

I have a group frame with 10 check boxes in it. They are CheckBox1 to
CheckBox10 (IDE selected the names). If I make a copy of this check
box what rules are used to generate the new names? If I put 10 of these
groups in larger group frame and put 9 more smaller groups in the larger
frame (large frame contains 10 smaller frames where each smaller frame
contains 10 check boxes), what are the naming rules.

[Patrick Ireland]

Pat,

TNX, guess I need to wait on the Beta 2. By the way did they do anything
about control arrays in the Beta 2 or is it just like Beta 1?

Pat

Patrick Steele <psteele@ipdsolution.com_> wrote:
>In article <3b2a69f3$1@news.devx.com> (from Patrick Ireland
><ireland@airmail.net>),
>>
>> Has anyone else had a very very slow encounter with the forms designer?
>> I have a tab control with about 575 controls on a single page of the
>> tab. I get terrible IDE performance doing any kind of forms design with
>> this application. I've got 256MB and a 233 and have never seen such
>> poor performance out of the Beta 1 as with this app.
>
>That's a known problem with Beta 1 (IIRC, there's something about the
>code generated "behind the scenes" that isn't efficient). It's
>supposedly fixed in Beta 2.
>
>> Another question:
>>
>> I have a group frame with 10 check boxes in it. They are CheckBox1 to
>> CheckBox10 (IDE selected the names). If I make a copy of this check
>> box what rules are used to generate the new names? If I put 10 of these
>> groups in larger group frame and put 9 more smaller groups in the larger
>> frame (large frame contains 10 smaller frames where each smaller frame
>> contains 10 check boxes), what are the naming rules.
>
>I have no idea. My guess would be that as controls are introduced into

>the form, the largest number after "CheckBox" would be incremented by
>one and used.
>
>--
>Patrick Steele
>(psteele@ipdsolution.com)
>Lead Software Architect
>Image Process Design

[Patrick Steele]

In article <3b2a69f3$1@news.devx.com> (from Patrick Ireland
<ireland@airmail.net>),
>
> Has anyone else had a very very slow encounter with the forms designer?
> I have a tab control with about 575 controls on a single page of the
> tab. I get terrible IDE performance doing any kind of forms design with
> this application. I've got 256MB and a 233 and have never seen such
> poor performance out of the Beta 1 as with this app.

That's a known problem with Beta 1 (IIRC, there's something about the
code generated "behind the scenes" that isn't efficient). It's
supposedly fixed in Beta 2.

> Another question:
>
> I have a group frame with 10 check boxes in it. They are CheckBox1 to
> CheckBox10 (IDE selected the names). If I make a copy of this check
> box what rules are used to generate the new names? If I put 10 of these
> groups in larger group frame and put 9 more smaller groups in the larger
> frame (large frame contains 10 smaller frames where each smaller frame
> contains 10 check boxes), what are the naming rules.

I have no idea. My guess would be that as controls are introduced into
the form, the largest number after "CheckBox" would be incremented by
one and used.

--
Patrick Steele
(psteele@ipdsolution.com)
Lead Software Architect
Image Process Design

[Patrick Steele]

In article <3b2a71f7$1@news.devx.com> (from Patrick Ireland
<ireland@airmail.net>),
>
> Pat,
>
> TNX, guess I need to wait on the Beta 2. By the way did they do anything
> about control arrays in the Beta 2 or is it just like Beta 1?

As far as I know, control arrays are still gone. However, they may have
done something in the IDE that makes the set up of an array of controls
that share similar events easier.

--
Patrick Steele
(psteele@ipdsolution.com)
Lead Software Architect
Image Process Design

[Vlad Ivanov]

>I have a tab control with about 575 controls on a single page of the
>tab.

Thats an aweful design - you should seriously reconsider your GUI.

[Patrick Ireland]

Vlad,

It would have been nice to be able to redesign the tab control, but
the tab page represents a 2 dimensional structure that the client
wishes to maintain. Under VB6-- it used control arrays, but such
niceties are not available with VB.NET. Oh well 8-(

Pat


"Vlad Ivanov" <nomail@nomail.com> wrote:
>
>>I have a tab control with about 575 controls on a single page of the
>>tab.
>
>Thats an aweful design - you should seriously reconsider your GUI.