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Taken From The Forum: Help & Support for DHTML Menu Version 5+
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Last Updated: Saturday July 14 2012 - 06:07:00

Optimizing menu responsiveness


Poster: Croata
Dated: Tuesday July 18 2006 - 18:30:02 BST

Hi,

We've been running your menu in "humble" machines (1,4 Ghz or less), and we've found the performance shows less responsiveness than in faster machines (that is a little obvious ;) ). Some testers say had found times greater than 3 secs for opening a submenu (!?)

We've been testing a large menu, like the shown in http://www.dinko.cl/~dinko/menu/menu3-cpu.png, when you can see the hops in the CPU consumption when playing around with the menu.

So, we're looking for a way to achieve BETTER RESPONSIVENESS in slower machines. We've only take the following "countermeasures":

- No DirectX filters
- No images, just single-colored styles for every element
- Shorten the delays to a quarter of a second or less

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Thanx again,
Cro


Poster: John
Dated: Tuesday July 18 2006 - 22:39:42 BST

Got a URL we can look at? Are you running the latest code (5.752)?


Poster: Croata
Dated: Wednesday July 19 2006 - 16:40:01 BST

John wrote:
Got a URL we can look at? Are you running the latest code (5.752)?


I put an example at http://www.dinko.cl/~dinko/menu2. The lack of responsiveness should be more noticeable when hovering and playing around on the first level (left frame).

I'm sorry to say, but we're using Windows 2000 & MSIE 6.0. Don't forget to open the Task Manager when travelling through the menues!

- The version is 5.747 at http://www.dinko.cl/~dinko/menu2

- We have 5.752 at http://www.dinko.cl/~dinko/menu3, but as you can see the new .js are causing trouble (we're in the process of reading the changelog, detect important changes and promote our code ;) ... without significant improvements)

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Thanks,
Cro


Poster: Croata
Dated: Friday July 21 2006 - 16:12:12 BST

Croata wrote:
- We have 5.752 at http://www.dinko.cl/~dinko/menu3, but as you can see the new .js are causing trouble ...


Now it should be OK with 5.752 in that URL. There were some problems using the new mm_navframe.js.

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Thanks,
Cro