I actually was thinking that creating an external holder for what's in the tree might be helpful for some other parts of the program. The trouble is that it doesn't get rid of the problem. If the user expands all the nodes, I'm right back where I started.

Michelle

>Michelle,
>How much effort would it take to rewrite your stuff? We implemented a similar approach here but the TV is tied to a set of cursors/tables. Can't you tie the querying to the cursors and then use the TV for display only.
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>Just a thought.
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>BTW, one of the problems with using the TV is that not only does the loading take an exceedingly long time for large numbers of Nodes, unloading takes almost as long because each Node object created must be destroyed.