setting filename of image objects takes a l-o-n-g time

[Jeanne A. E. DeVoto]

At 2:39PM -0700 5/14/03, Barry Levine wrote:
>Setting the filename takes about 37 ticks (one half second!) per
>iteration (or over 13 seconds total!). Setting the name of the image
>object itself takes less than 1 tick.

Remember, setting the filename doesn't just set the property - Rev also has
to go out to the disk, fetch the data in the file, and display it in the
image. That might account for the delay, I suspect.

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