pg wrote: > I have some pulldown menus in a VB app which extract data > from a remote site with slow connection. And the data in those tables for > pulldowns changes rarely. So if the pulldown has to extract the data and > transmit it thru slow connection, the pulldown will take a few seconds to be > in action, which is a little bit annoying, especially if the data is the > same as in the array of client.
Probably you'll do it better storing a local cached copy of the pulldown data (in the VB side) and having a background process to refresh it only when the server notifies that it has changed. hth cl. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly