Performance issues with setting the image source

[Peter Haworth]

Hi Mark,
I use a repeat loop to put the text of each line into the field.  Once it's
there, I set the image source of of the appropiate chars of the line.

I have to have a repeat loop but if I'm understanding you correctly, you're
recommending:

- put the text of each line into a variable within the loop
- at the end of the loop, insert the appropriate html into each line of the
variable
- set the htmltext of the field to the variable

Do I have that right?

Pete
lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>



On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Mark Schonewille <
m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com> wrote:

> Hi Pete,
>
> Are you using a repeat loop? Don't do that. Instead, take the htmlText,
> replace a character with the appropriate html (have a look at the htmlText
> after setting an imageSource to find out the correct HTML code) and set the
> htmlText of the field to the modified data.
>
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>
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> On 30 jul 2012, at 20:38, Peter Haworth wrote:
>
> > I have a scrolling list field which I'm populating with lines of text and
> > also setting the imagesource of up 5 chars.  It turns out that it takes
> an
> > average of about one tenth of a second per line to set the imagesources,
> so
> > to populate the field with 100 lines takes 10 seconds.
> >
> > These images become hotspots for the user to click on and I would like to
> > stick with that as a user interface if possible but the length of time
> it's
> > taking is obviously not acceptable.
> >
> > I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions as to how improve the
> > performance or perhaps another technique to show image hotspots in a line
> > of text.
> >
> > Pete
> > lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
>
>
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