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Maury Markowitz
I have a column in a continuous-forms display, typically showing perhaps a
dozen rows, which seems to cause some sort of problems. The field has a
simple formula in it... =[commissions]*0.01 Users type in a "commissions per
share" in an input form in pennies, but this form converts that to dollars.
I've noticed that on some machines this field takes a LONG time to
calculate, perhaps 15 seconds -- remember, there's only a dozen records or
so. To the user, during the update, it looks like the application is locked
up.
Additionally the screen doesn't update the display properly, you have to run
the mouse over the field to get it to update. Sometimes if you run it up and
down over the column, cells with a value will actually clear it out, then
recalculate it again later.
Now it might not be this column that's actually causing the problem, but it
LOOKS that way -- all the other cells have data in them instantly and don't
have these sorts of display problems.
Can anyone suggest some way to debug this sort of thing? Or perhaps offer a
reason for this?
Maury
dozen rows, which seems to cause some sort of problems. The field has a
simple formula in it... =[commissions]*0.01 Users type in a "commissions per
share" in an input form in pennies, but this form converts that to dollars.
I've noticed that on some machines this field takes a LONG time to
calculate, perhaps 15 seconds -- remember, there's only a dozen records or
so. To the user, during the update, it looks like the application is locked
up.
Additionally the screen doesn't update the display properly, you have to run
the mouse over the field to get it to update. Sometimes if you run it up and
down over the column, cells with a value will actually clear it out, then
recalculate it again later.
Now it might not be this column that's actually causing the problem, but it
LOOKS that way -- all the other cells have data in them instantly and don't
have these sorts of display problems.
Can anyone suggest some way to debug this sort of thing? Or perhaps offer a
reason for this?
Maury