Egrid/FF Problem

[Marc Van Cauwenberghe]

John,

This is indeed a strange problem.  I just downloaded firefly 1.10 and reinstalled it to a different folder.  I added the folder under customs controls but did not get any of the symptoms you get.

Marc

[John Messingham]

Very strange, I have tried it on three machines with different O/S's and get the same problem on all.

[TechSupport]

Hi Guys,

Sorry for being late jumping in on this problem. I expect that the problems relates to FireFly attempting to verify its location in the code editor after a key is pressed. When a key is pressed, FireFly will attempt to locate which Sub/Function that it is located in and update the comboboxes if necessary. There is some XML file access that occurs at this point. I assume that because the XML is so big that finding the correct node is a slowdown? Not sure.

Nonetheless, the XML handling for 3rd party controls is eliminated for the next version of FireFly so I expect that this problem will disappear. Sorry for the problem - I'll try to find an appropriate interium fix for you.

[John Messingham]

Hi Paul,

Does the fact that this happens even if I have not added the grid to my project throw any spanners into your theory?

[TechSupport]

Hi Paul,

Does the fact that this happens even if I have not added the grid to my project throw any spanners into your theory?

Yeah, it sure does! It basically shots my theory down.

FireFly attempts to load the egrid DLL in order to allow it to stay in the FireFly Toolbox. I will have to take a much closer look at the FireFly/EGrid integration - I will coordinate with Elias. It would be a shame if we can't get FireFly and EGRid to play together well.

[Elias Montoya]

I kinda knew firefly was doing some job in the background related to
XML, the pause was present in slow PC's only, right?

However, as paul says, lets dig on this deeper. Paul, just let me know what i can do to help you and i will try hard.

Elias