Why don't you select only the fields that you need from server in your
querys?
Are you using 'select *'? This is not good to C/S approach.

Luiz.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Handbury" <ehandbury@...>
To: <IBObjects@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2002 7:32 PM
Subject: [IBO] IBO's use of StringList


> Hello,
>
> (BCB6-SP2, IBO4_2Hg, FB-1.0-796)
>
> I have a major form with about 50 queries of which not all are open
> at any 1 time. Most of the queries are attached to Grids, which in my
> case, display a very small subset of the fields from the query since
> I don't allow the user to edit information from the Grid... they are
> there for display purposes only.
>
> Because of my strategy, I have hundreds of data_fields whose
> FieldsVisible property is set as: FIELDNAME=F.
> When I think of the runtime impact of having all those
> TIB_StringList entries, I wonder if there is a better way. Not only
> is there substantial memory being allocated for these StringLists,
> there must a runtime penalty having to parse all the entries when
> displaying the Grids.
>
> Could there not be a new property like IgnoreAllFields, which when
> set to true means that all data_fields are not visible unless
> specified as FIELDNAME=T on the FieldsVisible property. In a case
> where I have (say) 30 fields on the query (and only display 4 on the
> Grid), this would be a savings of 26 StringList entries. Given I have
> 50 or so queries, the savings in memory and performance could be
> substantial.
> Another approach is to have a special fieldname called __FIELDNAME,
> which could be set to T or F which would set the default visible
> property for the dataset, so I could have in the FieldsVisible
> property:
> __FIELDNAME=F
> LASTNAME=T
> STATUS=T
> which, again, could amount to a real savings.
>
> Of course, I may be missing the point completely and am doing
> things totally wrong.
>
> Thanks for your comments. Eric.