Good idea Trac! I'll use the count and startingIndex properties to manage the paging locally ;)
Kind regards, Andrew Spaulding www.flexdaddy.info --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Tracy Spratt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One possibility with the repeater is to set the number of items that are > rendered, then, instead of scrolling, use page-up, page-down buttons. A > repeater with around a hundred moderately complex items is horribly > slow. Show only 10, and recycleChildren and things improve > dramatically. This is much simpler to impement that true server-based > data paging, though Matt C. has a good discussion of that. > > A cellRenderer in a list is faster than the repeater, but with 100+ > items still takes several seconds. > > No matter how you do it, it is the rendering that takes the time. > > Tracy > > -----Original Message----- > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Andrew Spaulding > Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 7:36 PM > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [flexcoders] using a repeater with large data sets > > Hi all, > > I am currently using a repeater to display a list of search results, > each of them being a container of sorts with a custom header with > extra controls. Click on the header open and closes the result, a long > with a few other bits and pieces. > > One thing I have found is that with a larger search result listing it > takes quite some time to render the results. > > If I was to manually create the search result children myself using > createChild etc (rather than using the repeater) what effects would > this have on my performance issues? I am not particularly interested > in paging result sets just yet, but this would be my next step if I am > unable to speed things up otherwise. > > Any thoughts would be appreciated, > > Cheers, > > Andrew Spaulding > www.flexdaddy.info > > > > > -- > Flexcoders Mailing List > FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt > Search Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com > Yahoo! Groups Links -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/