Why blue wheel is appearing for every action! it's annoying!

[srinivas1506]

Hello Experts,

I was developed a form with LC, well.

I had adobe reader 9X.

I launched the form on browser and started filling it (clicking on the blank space, entering some text on free text fields, entering quantity values in decimal fields, selected a value from the drop-down fields, checked the chek boxes....), its fine, well.

2 weeks ago i have upgraded my reader from 9X to 10.1.3 ver., well

Now, again i launched my form and started filling/working in it, but every time / for every action, the cursor's blue wheel / processing wheel appearing (pls. see attached JPEG), rolling for a fraction of second....weird, bcz i did not put any JS in LAYOUT event of any object of the form (except some small piece of code of DATE stuff on 2 DATE fields)! And a little piece of code from standard Adobe's under 'my_Form::ready:layout'

Even this wheel is appearing if i move the curoser on to the field!

Pls. let me know why the blue / processing wheel is appearing for every action, is it bcz of my reader upgrade to 10.1.3? Its annoying for user!!

Thank you

[srinivas1506]

Any help pls.?

Thank you   

[Jono_Moore]

I've seen this happen if there are a lot of calculations going on. The Calculation event fires every time something changes on the form.

[srinivas1506]

Thank you, but i have a very small piece of JS on my_form::calculate - (JavaScript, client), here i have a loop JS wherein am greying out some bunch (around 10) fields by looping 10 times iterations, that's all.

As i said, this blue wheel annoying is not there in reader ver. 9x

Thank you

[dcidev]

Have you tried commenting out all your code and seeing if there's still a problem?

Kyle

[srinivas1506]

I have commented the piece of code of my_form::calculate - (JavaScript, client), but no success, the blue wheel still there

or you mean, i need to comment all JS of my_form? if so, i have lot of code on field/sub-form/page/my_form levels, for CHANGE, INITIALIZATION, docReady, a very little in Laout Ready, a lot code all togather

Thank you

[Jono_Moore]

If you haven't seen this example from Niall O'Donovan on script events you might want to explore take a look at it. It shows what events fire when and implications for form performance.

http://www.assuredynamics.com/index.php/portfolio/livecycle-designer-es2-script-events/

I'd say though that something is causing Acrobat to work hard which is where the spinning wheel is coming from. I don't know why that would change between version 9 and 10 though.

[srinivas1506]

Thank you for the link, awesome app for beginners, actually i saw this around end of 2011 (i guess) that time i dont see these many features. probably recently he added, Thank you

[Jono_Moore]

I hope you can find something in there to help!

Also there are better ways of doing things that can help with performance. Like using resolveNodes() instead of resolveNode() can help on things like looping to do calculations with fields or affect fields (like where you have a loop greying out fields):

http://blogs.adobe.com/formfeed/2011/06/resolvenode-vs-resolvenodes.html