10.11 CollectionView reuses views and doesn’t create 100,000 cells. So that could be appropriate.
> On May 3, 2016, at 12:53 PM, Jens Alfke <j...@mooseyard.com> wrote: > > >> On May 1, 2016, at 9:06 AM, thatsanicehatyouh...@me.com wrote: >> >> As I've been thinking about this problem it occurred to me that the new(ish) >> NSCollectionView might be a viable replacement in this case. Before I go >> down the rabbit hole, is it reasonable to use to create a spreadsheet-like >> view? > > No, because it eagerly creates a view for every item in the collection. So if > you have a spreadsheet with 100,000 cells, it’s going to create 100,000 > NSViews when the window opens. > > NSMatrix may work better because it uses only a single view, but IIRC it > still preallocates an NSCell for every item. Also I think it’s been > deprecated. > > I suspect you’ll need a custom view that uses cells or some other > lightweight-view design pattern to avoid consuming resources for items that > aren’t currently visible. (Of course, someone else may have already > implemented that custom view, either as open source or commercially.) > > —Jens > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/alex%40webis.net > > This email sent to a...@webis.net Alex Kac - El capitán _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
