Load Images Into Memory

[Rick Harrison]

Hi Sannyasin,

I just woke up and I’m not sure I am
following what you are trying to do at all,
except that you are wanting images to
be preloaded into your stack.

Are you doing Import As Control —> Image File
That should load preload the image into
memory into your stack so you don’t
experience a delay.

I hope that helps.

If I’m not following things, then never-mind.
I’ll look at this again when I am more awake.

Cheers,

Rick

> On Feb 7, 2019, at 9:48 AM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> On mobile, you need one stack always open.
> 
> Which is typically is the standalone, including init all libs, models, livecodescript stacks etc. I call it the 
> 
> BootStack
> 
> You hide it right away.
> 
> Additionally on  Cards 2,3,4,5 etc. of the boot stack, I’ll keep images which we use anywhere in the app as icons to buttons.
> 
> So, you boot the app, (splash screen is left blank nothing that a background color); it is hidden and you open the "Main" stack.  Call it the 
> 
> Stack 1
> 
> Now:
> 
> -- if you have images in card 4 of the BootStack that are referenced from disk for 10 images, they are really small images  7K to 39K, less an 250K total
> 
> and
> 
> -- Stack 1  on card 3 you have a ten button panel with id for icons taken from the ID's of image of the BootStack, card 4
> 
> What Happens (I think, not really sure) 
> 
> Stack 1, you for to from card 2 ( "go next") to card 3 with the ten buttons and on Android it takes 4-5 seconds! 
> But then, even if you close  Stack 1 and reopen it later, going to the card with icons it "instant" 
> 
> My intuition says, by calling the icons of card 4 of the Boot Stack (which is hidden) will are having to wait will it loads them from disk. (why it takes 4 seconds for 250K is mysterious)
> 
> Then are they are cached by the Boot Stack,they  are instantly available and the icons of  a "future" revisit to a Stack 1,  card 3 that has those button.
> 
> So, if I am right, how can you load images on a card that not shown, from disk, into memory?
> 
> 
> 
> 
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