On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Michael Ash<michael....@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Chris Carson<cucar...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've created a simple application with an NSTableView. I have written a 
>> delegate for this table, 
>> numberOfRowsInTableView:objectValueForTableColumn:row:, that returns the 
>> number of rows in the table when requested.
>>
>> My application uses the table view to display hexadecimal data on a flash 
>> memory chip, with 16 bytes displayed per row. As a test, I tried returning a 
>> large number for the number of rows, 0x1000000. When I scroll through the 
>> table, everything looks okay for the first 14 million rows or so, after 
>> which the gray horizonal cell separator disappears and the row data begins 
>> to shift by a pixel per row, until it eventually is superimposed on the row 
>> above it. This seems like a bug with the NSTableView class, but perhaps I'm 
>> doing something wrong. Has anyone else run into this problem?
>
> Known problem:
>
> http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=nstableview+14+million&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
>
> Either restrict your app to running in 64-bit mode (which will cause
> the graphics system to use doubles instead of floats) or write a
> custom control.

...or seriously reconsider the utility (expectation) of having
millions of row in a table view.

Do users really want to scroll thru that many rows? Can users work
with that much data? etc.

In other words will this really be a problem without first causing
usability problems for your users.

-Shawn
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