Practical limits on object counts

[Paul Foraker]

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Richard Gaskin
<ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:
> Have any of you worked on stacks with an insane number of objects on a card
> (>5,000)?
>
> What issues did you encounter?

I have a bead pattern generator that dynamically clones a small
graphic to produce 4,634 of them arranged according to dimensions and
patterns set by the user. There are also some fields and buttons,
bringing the total number of controls to 4,646. It takes about 2
seconds to render on an iMac with the screen locked. When you mouse
down on the inspection arrow in the Property Inspector, you get a
disabled item: "Too many controls to display [4646]". There aren't too
many fields or buttons to display, but it doesn't care. :)

-- Paul