DwtSelect with many options is very slow

[jwilsonsprings]

I use a DwtSelect that contains roughly 60 DwtSelectOptions (user is selecting their age). There is a very distinct delay (a few seconds) before the popup for the options will appear.

It seems to be equally slow on both Firefox and IE (7).

Is this a characteristic of DwtSelectOption, or am I doing something wrong/inefficient??

Code fragment below:

var options = [];
var firstYear = (new Date()).getFullYear()-12;
if (select_one) {
	options[options.length] = new DwtSelectOption("", true, "Select one");
}
for (var i=60; i > 0; i--) {
      options[options.length] = new DwtSelectOption(firstYear + "", false, firstYear + "");
	firstYear = firstYear -1 ;
}
options[options.length] = new DwtSelectOption(firstYear + "", false, firstYear + " or before");
return new DwtSelect({parent:parent.getShell(), options:options});

[ash85]

Hi , i am also trying to have a DwtSelect where at moment there is "notes" field in contact panel.
Could you tell me how to go about it ? thanks a lot