>>What is the criteria for determining the tooltiptext? Can this be quantified at design-time for all possible cases? If so, I would create >>a table of the pre-generated values and then do a lookup based on a key for the applicable tooltiptext.

The tooltiptext is more data about the record the users is hovering over so everyone is unique, building them at the start delays instantion too much.

Although I am starting to play with ParellelFox to see if that could resolve the startup delay.

Gary.