Loading a LONG list with images
Richard Gaskin
ambassador at fourthworld.com
Mon Feb 21 15:12:30 EST 2022
How many images?
I once made a solution for 3,000 images, but it may not scale well above
8,000 or so depending on memory and connection speed.
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Dan Friedman wrote:
> Does anyone have any answers to the issue of loading a long list with
> images so that it loads images "as needed" like a webpage does.
>
> I have a DataGrid with several hundred rows. Each row has a specific
> image that is to be displayed with that row (like a list of songs).
> The image is loaded from the web. Is there a method to load the
> DataGrid and only load the images for the rows that are shown? And,
> when you scroll the grid, the images for the newly shown rows are then
> loaded. The loading need to happen somehow without halting the
> scrolling or making it stutter.
>
> I hope that makes sense!
> -Dan
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