Re: [clutter] grid with multiple actors

[Lionel Landwerlin <llandwerlin gmail com>]

On 14/11/12 10:47, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> On Wed, November 14, 2012 9:16 pm, Lionel Landwerlin wrote:
> > On 14/11/12 09:51, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have a grid similar to a spread sheet with multiple actors (approx
> > > 1500)
> > > which receiving button-press events.  12 rows x 130 columns
> > >
> > > When the grid is built it takes about 5 seconds to be displayed on
> > > screen.
> > >
> > > The grid can be expanded upto 130,000 actors or approx 1000 rows x 130
> > > columns so it would take approx 500 seconds to build and display in that
> > > case.
> > >
> > > Is there are more efficient method to build a clickable/editable grid
> > > with
> > > clutter?
> > Don't use that many actors. It's a well known weakness of Clutter.
>
> So instead of having multiple actors as buttons what is the correct method
> for drawing multiple buttons in the case of a grid?
>
> Is there an example somewhere of a clutter grid layout?

Am I wrong to think that your display is probably not big enough to 
display 130 columns?
If that's the case, then you probably want to implement a container that 
reuses actors from
a pool just deal with the number of visible items.

-Lionel