Why the lag?

[eiger06]

So I've been working on a Windows Phone 7 theme (St6rm Win7 Theme)...fairly simple...just a few defined buttons (8) and a few customizable icons (10). The screen scrolls up and down around 400pixels. Everything was working fine. I've recently tried to update the theme by removing 6 of the customizable icons and placing 8 customizable icons in "pop-up" tabs when the "My World" and "Connected" buttons are clicked (Screenshots of the changes are in my last post here). I have the two tabs in different layers. All I did was make a couple buttons to show and hide the layer for each area. The scrolling of the base layer is still smooth, but when I try and click a button after scrolling, it brings up what used to be there before the scroll. If I focusin on the area, it will still be the previous button, but when I then click, it opens the correct app. Make sense? It's like the layer is scrolling visually, but the button memory is hanging out until I wake it up with a focusin action. If I remove the two added layers, the problem goes away. I have the issue whether I'm trying to active the layers (display them) or if I'm trying to click on one of the defined buttons.

Have I just reached the end of memory for the phone (9550)?
Is there a difference between using display vs visibility (I've tried to use both with no success)?
Would it work better if I had it all in the same layer?

I'm at a loss here...any help is appreciated.

[dcburke789]

Do you hide the icons when they are off screen? (Meaning when they scroll out of view did you make their display to "none" or just move them off screen?)

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[eiger06]

Originally Posted by dcburke789

Do you hide the icons when they are off screen? (Meaning when they scroll out of view did you make their display to "none" or just move them off screen?)

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I had actually tried to hide (visibility to hidden) and change the display to none. Neither worked...I think I just hit the end of the memory road for the homescreen animations. I ended up removing two of the icons and everything works fine now. Man I wish these Storms had more RAM!

[JTekt]

If I focusin on the area, it will still be the previous button, but when I then click, it opens the correct app. Make sense? It's like the layer is scrolling visually, but the button memory is hanging out until I wake it up with a focusin action.

Any fixes to this? I have been having the same problem.

[eiger06]

Originally Posted by JTekt

Any fixes to this? I have been having the same problem.

Only thing I found worked was to remove a few icons...just too much RAM needed and ended up passing the threshold for smooth operation. I think I ended up removing 2 icons and it ended up fixing it. Sucks to be limited...too bad they don't sell RAM upgrades like a computer. (I guess they do...its called a Torch)