>Hi Anna.
>I've reading some of the response for this thread and it seem to me that your app. is very "simple" with small data tables and thus, not "large" enough to cause any significant delay.
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>Knowing this, I must ask a few question, how much faster does you client want your app. to come up? Maybe your app is not the problem; may it's his machine.
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>If you app. was "large" I would maybe understand, but your app. doesn't sound large enough to slow anything down.


I was just reading this thread, also, and it seems that this form of Anna's should come up pretty quickly. I have a lot of forms in my project and a lot more data-intensive activity, and it was running on Pentium 233's for about a year with no complaints from the users.

I am wondering if the switch to Delphi or whatever will even produce a noticable improvement in form instantiation?

BTW, I did use Delphi myself for some projects I did in graduate school, none involving any database activity. I found it to be a nice tool. I learned how to program in PASCAL originally, and so that part of it presented no problems.