This is more so a long-term observation than an immediate request. Please take note of the following when you focus your attention on revamping the CP:
My store currently has 800+ Options. As the CP works now, ALL of those options are added to every Edit Product page in the Control Panel.The Edit Product pages have ballooned to 1.2MB in just the single html file.
**It is not too bad when Categories, Options, Option Choices, etc.. are listed inside a menu, as the html is only:
That repeated 800 times really can't be condensed much more.Code:<option value="294">Some Text Here</option>
Balloon that to this code 800 times:
Perhaps this could be reduced to a single function in the onclick event of something like:Code:<li><a class="valign_middle" href="#" id="opt_134_link_134" onclick=" // set var equal to the field that controls the state of this option var optFld = document.getElementById('options[134][state]'); // if option is currently off if (optFld.value == 'off') { // track state optFld.value = 'on'; // this adds the option table row via AJAX addProdOption(134); // toggle image visibility getFirstChildElement(this).style.visibility = 'visible'; } else { // track state optFld.value = 'off'; // this removes the option table row via AJAX delProdOption(134); // toggle image visibility getFirstChildElement(this).style.visibility = 'hidden'; } event.cancelBubble=true; " opt_value="off" > <img src="https://www.example.com/squirrelcart/images/cart/tiny_check.gif" style="visibility: hidden" border="0" /><span title="Option Title">Option Name</span> </a> <input id="options[134][state]" name="options[134][state]" type="hidden" value="off"/> </li>
With of course the appropriate singular function definition in the <head>Code:...onclick="optionListView(134); event.cancelBubble=true;"...
This would immediately reduce the html burden by about 60% for each Option; dropping the example above from 1.2mb to 500-600kb.
If you find time to integrate this into the current CP, great. If not, I will tweak my own installation to suit my needs in the meantime. (Again, nothing is broken - just not optimal). But please make a note of this situation and others like it where repetition is involved; i.e. the comments are nice, but they are similarly repeated for each Option.
Thanks.
PS: I think this is partly to blame for some last few rare form posting issues that I had been experiencing, as the page was not even fully loaded before I had finished my edits and tried to commit changes. And when trying to submit before the page fully loaded, I think severing the partial download and switching to POST the page somehow causes a stalemate and eventual timeout.
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