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Re: Don Cole's Niffty Progress Bar Uploaded Atten: RAD

• Posted by Pete Lomax <petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk> Nov 12, 2006
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>Rad wrote:
>	
>> 
>> Hi Don,
>> 
>> Yes, I want to monitor the loading of menu items.
>> 
>> Here, I am talking about a fairly large system with more than 20 modules
>> and around 800-1000 menu items in all.
>> And being a client-server application, I have seen it taking considerable
>> time to load user specific menus, server being in a different city
>> altogether.
>> So, better to keep the user awake and interested in the system 
Just a thought: would it not be an awful lot better to download a
20-byte-ish version file from the server, if does not match grab new
copy of the 'config/menu' file (and progress-bar that download?).

OK, 800-1000 menu items is, erm, outrageous or something, but you have
to be kidding me to claim it would take say 4 secs if done locally?
Out of interest, how long does it actually take if done locally (ie on
workstations own hd vs "server in a different city altogether")?

Curious,
Pete