Donal Posted February 25, 2005 Share Posted February 25, 2005 Finally made the move to seven.One of the forst things I noticed is that pop up lists in seven are extremely slow on pc platform.My pc is windows xp.It does not happen on a mac.Is this an xp issue.Any guidance?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrEase Posted February 25, 2005 Share Posted February 25, 2005 is the list a value list taking its data from a related table? If so index the key fields, the field the values come from and check relationships, see if it helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donal Posted February 25, 2005 Author Share Posted February 25, 2005 No. Tried with two simple fields with a value list of 10 items.Opened file on mac(osx) and pc(xp) (we use both here) and result was slower on pc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron K Posted February 25, 2005 Share Posted February 25, 2005 I see the same slowdown compared to 5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leader Posted March 2, 2005 Share Posted March 2, 2005 Hmm... I used FM7 under XP, but of course there could be dozens if not hundreds of variables between 2 configurations. You do have the latest updates, right? Is the 2nd time it pops up equally as slow as the first? Anything weird regarding fonts? I know that sounds like an odd question, but I've seen some fonts render slower than others, particularly if anti-aliasing was turned on. Hmm... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Felix Kortrijk Posted April 22, 2005 Share Posted April 22, 2005 during a local FileMaker Developer's meeting it was suggested that the problems with pop-up lists taking a long time to display was that there was a display incompatibility between Windows (not Mac) and FMP v7 as it related to multiple windows being open at the same time. The explanation that was given was that when FMP v7 opens a file, even in hidden mode, it also opens a window. Each of these open windows conflict with the pop-up process. However, if files are not opened with a script, but rather by a relationship, those files are in a "hidden hidden" mode and the problem does not occur. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Officer Ron Posted April 24, 2005 Share Posted April 24, 2005 FileMaker is aware that there is an issue witht he pop up lists and should be addressing it in their next patch. In the meanwhile I've found that using pop-up menus instead is much faster. The problem seems only restricted to pop-up lists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donal Posted April 25, 2005 Author Share Posted April 25, 2005 I am amazed that this is not visible to all users. Are there different versions of software issued in each continent. Most users i have spoken to have noticed this. Popup menus look strange and very unprofessional.Any ideas when patch is due Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coolfile Posted April 27, 2005 Share Posted April 27, 2005 Hello There Just to give you an idea, your value list will be slow as you know if - getting data from anther file - From anther value list But if you reduce the amount of windows open in filemaker, you will See the difference, you value list will become a rocket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Officer Ron Posted April 27, 2005 Share Posted April 27, 2005 the only problem is that if you use scripts to go to related records in a specific layout you have to "Show in New Window" otherwise the scrpt doesn't bring you to the script doen't work. BUG BUG BUG !!!! Hope it gets addressed soon. Users are very annoyed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ender Posted April 27, 2005 Share Posted April 27, 2005 [ QUOTE ] the only problem is that if you use scripts to go to related records in a specific layout you have to "Show in New Window" otherwise the scrpt doesn't bring you to the script doen't work. BUG BUG BUG !!!! [/ QUOTE ] I don't have this problem. Is this a bug in the Windows version? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Officer Ron Posted April 27, 2005 Share Posted April 27, 2005 yes it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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