Re: [TreeView] Performance of TreeView with huge lists

2008-02-11 Thread Andrew Cowie
On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 22:20 +0100, Kristian Rietveld wrote: > is there any way that giving a user a list of > 100 million items is going to be useful? I would have said "no", but someone did present to me an interesting take on the matter a few weeks ago when Davyd and I were giving the GTK & GNOM

Re: [TreeView] Performance of TreeView with huge lists

2008-02-11 Thread Matthew Barnes
On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 17:06 -0500, Morten Welinder wrote: > Thorsten, try looking into ETable as used by Evolution (though not > necessarily recent versions - I last looks 5 years ago). It is not a > beauty, but it might fit your needs, Be wary of ETable though. It /is/ still used by Evolution a

Re: [TreeView] Performance of TreeView with huge lists

2008-02-11 Thread Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen
On 10/02/2008, Thorsten Wilmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > thank you for gtk+ and especially gtkmm. > > I want to Display a really _huge_ List with TreeView. My result is, > that my application consumes a even more huge amount of memory -- more > than Virtual Memory is available. The r

Re: [TreeView] Performance of TreeView with huge lists

2008-02-11 Thread Morten Welinder
This comes up regularly for various large values of N. > Just as random thoughts, is there any way that giving a user a list of > 100 million items is going to be useful? If you already know that the > user will never see all of the list, why try to display it? "You do not want to do that" is no

Re: [TreeView] Performance of TreeView with huge lists

2008-02-11 Thread Kristian Rietveld
Hi, Comments inline. On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 08:26:01PM +0100, Thorsten Wilmer wrote: > I want to Display a really _huge_ List with TreeView. My result is, > that my application consumes a even more huge amount of memory -- more > than Virtual Memory is available. The responsiveness is also not

[TreeView] Performance of TreeView with huge lists

2008-02-11 Thread Thorsten Wilmer
Hello, thank you for gtk+ and especially gtkmm. I want to Display a really _huge_ List with TreeView. My result is, that my application consumes a even more huge amount of memory -- more than Virtual Memory is available. The responsiveness is also not as expected. I have only a few lines to be