WEBUTIL File-directory listing issue (very slow)
Hello,
Suppose that in your module, you need to prompt the user with a file dialog where the user can list the directory's content and from there select a file. In 10g, webutil will provide this functionality.
Now, if the directory has sub-folders with several hierarchical levels, clicking on any of the file dialog button will bring the module to a halt (becomes very slow). This is to be expected given the levels we have in this folder.
In C/S version, we don't have the problem because we use the Windows native code to bowse the content and this was optimized a long time ago by Microsoft.
In Forms 10g, we use the webutil vesion which is JAVA based. From what I know, I suspect that I am having some threading issues when browsing the folder. If I were dealing with JAVA natively, I would handle that with starting different threads (one for the UI and one for browsing the contents). However, I am here with an FMB module that relies on webutil.
Did anyone notice this problem and how he/she resolved it without resorting to hacking the webutil code.
Thanks for any help.