Weird custom menu behavior in 8.2

I'm in charge of upgrading a large project from LV 7.1 to 8.2 and I ran into several problems but was able to resolve them except 2 major ones (not including the crashing tables and indices in self-indexing while loops).
1) Our custom menu now seems to badly lag when trying to open it. Takes a good 2-3 seconds for any items to show up when the application is running and this behavior continues UNTIL i switch to the block diagram and put in the password for our application (to access the code). This definitely seems like a bug and I wasn't able to find any similar posts. Is this a known issue? Why does it happen?
2)Badly lagging .VIT files. We have about 7 custom display .vit subvis which get called as clones by the application. They're not marked as re-entrant and I know 8.x changed the pass-by-value to pass-by-reference handling of clones. Is this the case? Why are my .vit now running twice as slow as in 7.1 on the same computer?
Altenbach mentioned overlapping elements on the FP of the .vit's in another post, but could someone clear this up for me please? Does slightly overlapping cursor display on a wavegraph count? Or is this when you have a completely different FP control right on top of another control? Any help is greatly appreciated.Message Edited by romulus on 01-24-2007 08:27 AM
Message Edited by romulus on 01-24-2007 08:31 AM

Hey romulus,
I am still not fully understanding the best way to try and reproduce your issue. If I were to create a new VI with a custom runtime menu in 7.1, then lock the block diagram with a password, and then open this VI in 8.20, should it display this behavior? I will continue trying to reproduce this on my machine, but have been unable to thus far. If you can provide a VI that replicates this problem, I would be happy to talk with R&D about it and see what is happening to cause the issue. Thanks!!
Brian B
Field Sales Engineer
Tennessee/Southern Kentucky
National Instruments

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>I just got CS3 (and un-installed DW8) and I have learned
that the "Show
>Pop-Up
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> (And
> yes, I made sure I had a 'link' selected when I tried to
choose this
> behavior)
Is there a setting in the Preferences that I missed or is CS3
just teasing
> me w/a remembrance of this easy to use pop up menu
maker? Any help is
> appreciated :)
>
> Thanks,
> Monica
>
> [email protected]
>
> ps: I do know about the "Spry assets" but I want to see
if the above
> option is
> possible first. thanx :)
>

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