Slow refresh for Singers list.

[laddie]

I know that I saw this posted for version 4.1, but i cant find it.
I have had this problem since version 4.1, but have been waiting to see if a later version fixed it.
The singers data base is extremely slow when it refreshes..When you select a singer the singers lists window turns gray and the screen refreshes. Sometimes takes as long as 20 seconds.

I played with it a little on my desktop and found that if you only have a few singers with only a few songs. It works fine. On my show laptop I have 48 singers, over half of them have over twenty song...

The biggest problem with the slow refresh is it freezes all Hoster controls..
You can't do anything until it finishes.

I have plenty of memory on all machines and all are completely up to date.

Tried it on my backup laptop...Same thing. Has anyone else noticed this?

[madjim- with the Lord]

Hey Laddie,
Are you talking about the Singer Database?

Jim

[laddie]

Originally Posted by madjim

Hey Laddie,
Are you talking about the Singer Database?

Jim

Yes.

[madjim- with the Lord]

When new features are added to a program there are two factors that always come into play.

1. The program will use more resources

2. The new code need to be teaked


MTU will work with the Singer Database code and smooth things out. I'll bring this up when we start testing 4.04.

Thanks

Jim

[madjim- with the Lord]

Hey Laddie,
My singer database has been filling up. What I'm doing is I leave the Singer Database window and the search window open all of the time. I set the Taskbar to autohide and pull them to the bottom of the screen, I don't close them. I leave the database window so only the name filed is visable. When I want to see the database I enter the singer name and double click on the top of the window and it goes full screen. When I'm done I double click again and it returns. (I'd like to be able to do the same thing with the search window. That way I don't have drag any windows around. Maybe down the road. )

Try leaving the Singer Databse window open (moved so you can see most of the playlist), this seems to make it work better.

Jim

[laddie]

Jim,
I will try that, sounds like it may help as long as the list of songs is less than one screen full..

I will test it on 4.03 tonight. Support told my to try unloading wmp11 for version 4.04 to stop slow graphics. I am going to load 4.04 back on my laptop for Friday night with wmp9 to test that. I will use your songs DB method as well. Let you know how it works. Thanks

[laddie]

Originally Posted by madjim

Hey Laddie,
My singer database has been filling up. What I'm doing is I leave the Singer Database window and the search window open all of the time. I set the Taskbar to autohide and pull them to the bottom of the screen, I don't close them. I leave the database window so only the name filed is visable. When I want to see the database I enter the singer name and double click on the top of the window and it goes full screen. When I'm done I double click again and it returns. (I'd like to be able to do the same thing with the search window. That way I don't have drag any windows around. Maybe down the road. )

Try leaving the Singer Databse window open (moved so you can see most of the playlist), this seems to make it work better.

Jim

Jim,
I used the method last night and it is a pretty good work-around. Its still slow, but not dragging the screen save alot refresh time.
Thanks