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- From: gurgle@netcom.com (Pete Gontier)
- Subject: new icon suite calls slow?
- Message-ID: <s-zn5_f.gurgle@netcom.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 05:45:41 GMT
- Organization: cellular
- Keywords: new icon suite sweeticons
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- Have been experimenting lately with the icon suite calls recently
- documented in a tech note. I defined a big grid in which to draw
- a fair amount of icons. The grid resizes with the window, so I am
- able to see what it's like to paint a whole screenful of icons. I've
- one word for it: slow.
-
- At first I thought it was the fact I was
- calling a routine which drew the appropriate icon resource
- given a resource ID. I figured the resource manager calls were slowing
- things down. So I pre-loaded the resources into an array of
- handles and used calls which accepted handles as parameters.
- Still the overall effect was slow.
-
- Are these calls just slow or is there something that can be done?
- Granted nobody said _SweetIcons was a spreadsheet manager, but it
- would be nice if I could do an icon grid like this.
- Email me and I will summarize later.
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- Pete Gontier // EC Technology // gurgle@netcom.com
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