performance with large menu trees..

Poster: sergio_101
Dated: Tuesday August 16 2005 - 20:09:57 UTC

i have searched this forum for answers on this, but i haven't seen anything that looks like it addresses this situation..

i am loading up a menu with a ton of entries.. one of them has 2k entries. i am starting to rethink putting that much detail into the menu... BUT... i am still running into VERY slow performance on the menus..

can someone give me an idea on this?

i have this menu:

http://red-red.webhop.net/ACP/menu.html

which is fed by this file:

http://red-red.webhop.net/ACP/menu_data.js

in IE, it barely loads... after considerable time...

in firefox, it loads sort of quicker.. but not much.

Poster: Andy
Dated: Wednesday August 17 2005 - 7:42:09 UTC

Hi,

There will always be a performance hit when using a lot of menus and menu items. This is because of the way DHTML Menus work, there's a lot to them.

We are working on improving performance all the time and hope to have something that works a little better soon.

Regards,
Andy

Poster: sergio_101
Dated: Wednesday August 17 2005 - 12:54:21 UTC

thanks!

we have decided to remove a layer of detail from this thing in order to keep it more manageable..

it works great now!

Poster: John
Dated: Wednesday August 17 2005 - 13:52:27 UTC

Glad to hear that you're cutting back. 2K items is certainly a tad overwhelming, perhaps even enough to drive some customers away. FWIW, I think you made the right decision.

Poster: sergio_101
Dated: Wednesday August 17 2005 - 14:05:48 UTC

just made the purchase!

got my serial number, and we're rocking and rollin!

thanks for all the forum help!

Poster: John
Dated: Wednesday August 17 2005 - 14:14:23 UTC

Thanks for the purchase, and welcome to the gang!

Reminder - when you download your licensed copy, don't forget to be logged in to the download site (different than being logged in here). If not, you'll still get the eval copy.