At 2:10 PM -0500 8/26/02, you wrote: >You're going to have to impose some kind of reasonable limit. >Suppose someone points your browser to a CD full of clip art? There >could be thousands of images. Trying to compose all that into a >single bitmap would bring down your app and possibly the entire OS. >Heck, even extracting the image info for a single 1600 by 1200 TIFF >can make Director bog a few moments. > >I did something like an image browser/thumbnail sheet builder in the >last chapter of my Dir book, and you can look over its source on my >website, but you need to understand that Director is not really a >great app for making a thumbnail browser, I think -- if you *have* >to build it in Director you're going to want to limit it; and if you >don't have to build it in Director, well, maybe you shouldn't. ;)
limit the number to the maximum you'll need to show at any given time do sprite re-assignment to swap them in & when you scroll, make more -> making thumbs is pretty quick, but even if it's is a little slow, the world has become very tolerant of graphic painting delays ... * my 2 cents * -Buzz [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
