Loading a LONG list with images

[Dan Friedman]

Tom,

Yes, assuming that is a DG in your video, that's just what I'm looking to do!   

-Dan


On 2/21/22, 3:22 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of Tom Glod via use-livecode" <use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com on behalf of use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

    Dan can you check this video and the pixabay search example?
    https://youtu.be/jN2bQbhQ0L8?t=216
    Is this what you have in mind?
    These images are loaded as the row comes into view.

    On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 6:07 PM Dan Friedman via use-livecode <
    use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

    > Richard,
    >
    > Probably not over a couple thousand.  The images are square -- they need
    > to be resized to the DG template image size, but not scaled (H vs W).
    >
    > -Dan
    >
    >
    > On 2/21/22, 12:14 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of Richard Gaskin via
    > use-livecode" <use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com on behalf of
    > use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
    >
    >     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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