performance with large menu trees..

sergio_101 · Post by **sergio_101** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 9:09 pm

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.

Post by **Andy** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 8:42 am

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

sergio_101 · Post by **sergio_101** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 1:54 pm

thanks!

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

it works great now!

Post by **John** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 2:52 pm

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.

sergio_101 · Post by **sergio_101** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 3:05 pm

just made the purchase!

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

thanks for all the forum help!

Post by **John** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 3:14 pm

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.