There's got to be a better way

[Phil Davis]

Thanks for posting this, Richard. Wow!

Phil Davis


Richard Gaskin wrote:
> Here's a tip to get even better performance (sometimes as much as two or 
> three times more): use a field in an unopened window for the translation.
> 
> When a field is on the current card, even if hidden, it's initialized 
> with additional things that don't come into play when accessing a field 
> on an unopened card.
> 
> In all versions of WebMerge through v2.3 I had been using a hidden field 
> on the main card for the translation.  But after I learned this trick 
> from Tuviah in v2.4 I now do that translation in an unopened substack, 
> and even thought my customers had long raved about WebMerge's 
> performance I was able to give them a 100% performance boost in one 
> step. :)