There's got to be a better way

[ron barber]

Hi Richard,

On Apr 12, 2005, at 7:38 PM, 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,

I'm a little confused about the unopened part.

Is the unopened card on the stack that you are working on but on  "cd 
2" or is the unopened cd on a separate stack altogether (a substack for 
example)? I thought that refering to a fld in an unopened stack would 
open that stack?

thanks
Ron