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.

-- 
  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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