also, cplair, in my original post, you'll notice that i said i really do like them, and i understand that somethings take longer to populate, and that i wish stardock would work at it so that things could load quicker. since it is set up to navigate folders until you open a file, it would be nice if it moved quickly to get to where i wanted to go.
tylerisfat, I respect and appreciate your eloquence, there's no muss, no fuss and no lie about you and I like that. I must reiterate though, fly-outs are indeed fast and instantaneous Sir, at least they are on my system(s).
As Lantec said, it's very possible that an issue with your system is causing your graphics to lag. A four second delay for a fly-out to display would piss me off for sure and I apologize for not being more compassionate to your plight.
So just for giggles and while I was replying to this post, I created 20 assorted fly-outs on my XP system including one leading to my 12,000 song MP3 collection, my wallpapers on an external drive displaying thumbnails, my screen shots and weather forcasts from 7 countries and the US.
The music collection took the longest, about 2 1/2 seconds to populate then display the album art. And since I own both platforms, for me this stuff runs damn near twice as fast on Vista.
If your fly-outs have always reacted slowly and that includes the default weather fly-out that comes with Object Dock, check your disk space, you want 50% free or better if you can, your monitor's refresh rate, video settings and drivers.
Hey I don't know what your specs are, but depending on what you currently have you may consider a higher end video card. It could be either one or a combination of many conditions that's causing your system to render slowly.
As an example, allowing Windows to decide between appearance and performance, Norton's Suite, McAfee's Suite and Tune-up Utilities visual styler could have an adverse affect on a system's over-all performance if not set correctly for your specific conditions.
Now if it's an issue where it use to run fine, then all of a sudden it doesn't, then the questions become, what changed on your system and when. You start thinking of maybe getting rid of the last thing you installed, a driver roll-back or system restore point if that's the case.
From listening to you though, you sound like the minority who actually maintains a system properly.
I do wish you much success with resolving this matter but I'm afraid that the developers cannot fix the application because it isn't broken.
Keep us posted here, I'm totally curious about this and offer my help as much as you can tolerate me.
