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From: Ray <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] 17" monitor and TMG
Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2005 13:05:46 -0500
References: <200511125013.709290@Terry3>
In-Reply-To: <200511125013.709290@Terry3>


Thanks Terry, I'm using a filter from the accents definition, it never
occured to me to do what you say, so much to learn. Now I have to go and
learn about flags.
Ray...

Terry Reigel wrote:

>On Sat, 01 Jan 2005 12:23:22 -0500, Ray wrote:
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>>I tried using the expanded picklist but found it too slow
>>for me, I use accents in my project to help me find my
>>way around (too many similar names), if I turn the
>>accents off it is just usable so I'm sticking to the
>>simple list for now. I'm running a Pentium4 3.0GHz so I
>>can't imagine what it must be like on a slower machine, I
>>suppose I've been spoiled. ;-)
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>I'm running the same hardware and have no problems with accents in the
>expanded Picklist, with over 15,000 people in the dataset and 7 accent
>conditions. It seems near instant for me. Also worked OK with my older
>computer.
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>Are you using accents based on filters, rather than on flags? That is
>a lot slower. If you are, you can create custom flags, set them once
>with the List of People report, then change the accents to use the
>flags. The accents work much faster when they don't have to recompute
>the conditions each time.
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>Terry Reigel
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