Discussing LiveCycle Designer performances

Hi!
I tried Adobe LiveCycle Designer to build a 10 pages or so interactive dynamic form and I noticed some problems regarding performances when dynamically adding or removing subforms. My document is made so that on page 1 you have a question like "Do the client has this thing?", if you answer yes, then a subform appears (presence = "visible" instead of presence = "hidden" on the next page (because the subform does not allow page breaks) and then I change the current page to go to the next page. The effect of this is that I want the person to check YES, and then the form goes to the details subform. It works, but the form actually goes to the next page before the subform is shown, so I see question 2 for 1 or 2 seconds and then I see the details subform for question 1. Is there anything that can be done about this lag?
Thank you for any comments / solutions etc.
Alexandre Soares

Yeah it is a good way to go around the problem, but still, designer is slow. I wanted to make sure nobody had a similar case where it was lightning fast. I'm not sure if it's a good tool for really "dynamic" forms. I tried it with a two pages sample form, hiding and showing a subform on the second page, and still it is not so fast... :(

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