pg wrote:
> I have some pulldown menus in a VB app which extract data
> from a remote site with slow connection. And the data in those tables for
> pulldowns changes rarely. So if the pulldown has to extract the data and
> transmit it thru slow connection, the pulldown will take a few seconds to
be
> in action, which is a little bit annoying, especially if the data is the
> same as in the array of client.
Probably you'll do it better storing a local cached copy of the pulldown
data (in the VB side) and having a background process to refresh it only
when the server notifies that it has changed.
hth
cl.