Re: Clist item max size

[Liam Quin <liam holoweb net>]

On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 17:00, zze-coframi balr001 wrote:
> I would like to know which is the maximum number of item which can be stored
> in a GtkList object

Hongl Lai wrote:
[...]
> Of course this also depends on how much RAM you have.

It also depends how many days you want to wait.  I note that
MandrakeUpdate gets round this by saying "filling lists" and
"filling trees" for a few seconds (on my 600MHz PC) with a progress bar.

It also helps to freeze the list while you do insertions.

Most toolkits seemto be slow at inserting thousands of items into a
list or tree widget.  It can also help if you only freeze ufter
the first 100 items or so, and then unfreeze briefly every few
thousanditems in the meantime, so that the user sees the first screen
appear quickly and the scrollbar grow, and perhaps has access to a
"stop" button.

Best,

Liam

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