>>>Is there an easy way to speed up a grid which displays a filtered table? It is extremely slow, no matter how fast the computer is.
>>Jon,
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>>Be sure the filter is fully optimizable
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>>Better still use a parameterized view to populate the grid.
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>The grid works at a tolerable speed... until the first record in the filtered set is reached. At this point, if the user scrolls up using the scroll bar or press the up arrow - anything to try to move before the first record - the computer will just hang for about 20 seconds or so. It seems that just the first record is problematic.
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>I will check the filters again, just to make sure they can be optimized.
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>The parameterized view might be a possibility, too, although there would be a lot of parameters in this particular instance.
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>BTW, I'm doing this in VFP 3.0b if that makes a difference.

The July '97 FoxPro Advisor article "Faster, Better Grids" is worth reading.
Ed B