> The "sliding window" is the exact concept > i'm planning to implement, but without an > explicit "more.." button. I would simply keep > track of the current window (actual record in > the pdb) and of the selected item (offset into > the current window/record) and automatically > switch from a window to the other.
I am leaving the list management (scrolling, etc.) to the OS so I am not quite sure this is easy to implement; what event would you use to decide to change your "sliding window"? > I think the list will not be used to randomly > search an item, but to browse items that are > closer to the searched one. Yeah, that's another reason why I haven't replaced mine yet. I have a search function that lets you "jump" to a particular entry in the list (similar to the address book find), and from there the user might want to navigate to a neighboring record. > Obviously a linear search is not an optimal > solution. If the records are sorted, you might be able to use a binary search. I think I briefly tested it with 40,000 records and it was reasonably fast in my case. Oliver __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus � Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
