Re: XForms: slow xforms

Steve Lamont (spl@szechuan.ucsd.edu)
Wed, 29 Sep 99 12:41:17 PDT

# To subscribers of the xforms list from spl@szechuan.ucsd.edu (Steve Lamont) :

> We have severe problems when using aforms (Forms Library Ada Bindings,
> V 0.86.0) ..
> ... When we try to create the distributed
> partitions of our program (with gnatdist) the same problem occurs. Every
> pixmap-load lasts for seconds, the whole program needs about 3 minutes
> to start (normally it takes only a few seconds).

How much data are you trying to load and over what kind of network?
Are the pixmaps on a server which is distant from the client? Are you
using Xpm pixmaps? These can be quite large -- they are really only
intended for small and usually embedded images.

spl
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