>>>Hello Nadya.
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>>>>> Well, if form has 500 or more controls, it would be slower, than mine :) <<
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>>>IMHO, a form with 500 or more controls is going to be impossible for any end user to deal with and needs to be refactored into several smaller forms < s >.
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>>You mean like cutting a Gordian knot into two smaller ones, which you still don't know how to untie? :)
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>Dragan,
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>Two things: I am continually impressed with the scope of your knowledge and I love the internet (see below for those like me who didn't know).

I owe a lot to our school system. Though it was permanently criticized, and underwent series of reforms, one thing remained: the gymnasium (in the European meaning of the word - i.e. a Grammar School, not a gym). There were three of these in my city, and I attended the oldest - I think I was the 124th generation or so. I know my first daughter was 150th or 149th generation. Regardless of the political system, this type of school somehow managed to produce general practice intellectuals and keep a soft spot for "intelligent lazy bums". Cramming was generally despised, comprehension was praised. When I went to college, I feared I'd become a mathematical Fach-Idiot (see any German dictionary), so I divided my attention between the college library and the public library, eating anything from sociology, philosophy, psychology, history... though about half of it was (and still is) SF :).

In the end (if there's an end to learning) I'm actually satisfied with the result. Knowing more gives you more stuff to joke with, and you have the pleasure to understand the fine humor. Sometimes it gets you into a situation when you're the only person in a room who's laughing... but then you catch the satisfied look from the author, and that's rewarding both.

I'm not all that smart and educated, I only read a lot, remember (and forget) a lot, and am old a lot :)