Re: Container performance

[jcupitt gmail com]

On 12/1/07, digicapt - gtk dev <gtk digicapt ch> wrote:
> If you try following code, you'll see that filling a container with 4000
> entries (first button) is about 20 times slower than filling a container with
> 4000 labels (second button) : 1 seconds for labels on my PC, 20 seconds for
> the edits.

Entries are just much, much more complicated. Creating 4000 edit
widgets is always going to be slow.

What you need to do is use a treeview instead, and have a editable as
a cell renderer. Now it will display like a label (it should be even
quicker than the label case), but when you click on an item, it will
turn into an edit widget for the time that you are using it.

Read about it here:

http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/unstable/TreeWidgetObjects.html

John