Images are needed on startup when the project is updated which means any of the image files could change.
Its a big problem for me , I can preload everything, save it to an image and distribute the image instead with zero delays. I dont care if this is going to be improved or not , since I can work around this limitation. I was merely reporting the creating forms from pngs is too slow. On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 4:07 PM Denis Kudriashov <dionisi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi. > > I am not understand why you need to load images on startup? Why you not > save pharo image with preloaded png files? > With that case you will get immediate startup with ready to use forms. > > Best regards, > Denis > 16 янв. 2016 г. 14:50 пользователь "Dimitris Chloupis" < > kilon.al...@gmail.com> написал: > > sorry but thats plain horrible performance wise and those images are >> needed as soon as the gui is opened. So there can be no lazy loading for >> them. The total size for all the 60 images is 530kbs . What would happen if >> I did some serious animations of 10s of mbs , I will have to go to buy a >> coffee to get my GUI opened :D >> >> On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 3:41 PM Nicolai Hess <nicolaih...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> 2016-01-16 13:50 GMT+01:00 Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.al...@gmail.com>: >>> >>>> Seems that creating forms and morph from pngs is super slow >>>> >>>> opened bug report >>>> >>>> >>>> https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/17403/Creating-Forms-from-PNGs-is-very-slow >>>> >>>> >>> your are loading 0-59 images in one turn. this takes ~ 1000 ms. Thats >>> not bad. >>> >>> How about loading them only on demand? This may cut down the start up >>> time: >>> >>> attache a small change for get and put the images into a dictionary and >>> only load new >>> "xx seconds-image" when it is used for the first time. >>> >>> - > [ChronosManager open] timeToRun >>> "0:00:00:00.626" >>> >>
