>I have a fairly complex form - allowing client to slice/dice/display data in multiple arrangements.
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>It is laid out using a pageframe with 10 pages.
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>On most pages I have a single grid, but on two I have 8 small grids each.
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>As I've 'built-up' the form, I've tried to carefully watched the load times.
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>With no grids, the form will load in approx 10sec (I'm doing A LOT of data prep on the way in)(1.8ghz with 512meg Dell) . Adding the 24 grids pushes the load time to 35secs. If I add them incrementally I'll see the load time increase incrementally. Grid recordsourcetype is set as alias - many of the grid access the same dbf, just changing order of columns, etc.
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>What should I look for as I try to finetune the load time - what is occuring as each of those grids is established that eats up all that time?

Steve,
Each grid adds at least 3 controls per column. However I found it quite strange on a 1.8 Ghz system 24 grids adding about 25 secs to load time. On my Athlon 650, 196 Mb it might be acceptable (assuming each grid could have a recordsource with about 250 columns - and absolutely I wouldn't accept and redesign).
To reduce to load time you could save each page content as a class and load only when page is activated (if not instantiated yet in a previous activate). I think it would even reduce the load time per page to less than 1/10th of total.
Cetin