On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 11:10 +0200, Kornél Pál wrote: > Hi, > > MS.NET ImageList creates handle when you first time retrieve or draw any of > it's images. Until that is stores the original image object, after handle > creation it uses a native ImageList. It applies size and color depth when > handle is created. (This is documented in ImageList.cs.) > > After handle is created modifying ColorDepth or ImageSize results in handle > recreation and the loss of all images. > > As we don't create any handle at all I decided to create it when images are > added and apply size and colordepth when handle is created in other words > when they are added. > > Patches r51171 and r51889 are not compatible with MS.NET behaviour as they > don't clear images after handle was created so these modifications should > not be preserved.
Well what you had broke an existing application that runs fine on MS.NET, so you aren't entirely right. I'm writing a test application now to find out when the images are cleared. Jackson > I belive that caching the images until using them is a bad idea as we don't > use any native image list and doing time consuming operations at > initializaion is better as if you create an ImageList you do it because you > want to access the images. > > If you think caching before handle creation behaviour is important after > considering the above things please let me know and I will implement that > behaviour. > > Kornél > _______________________________________________ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list