Hi Pete, Are you using a repeat loop? Don't do that. Instead, take the htmlText, replace a character with the appropriate html (have a look at the htmlText after setting an imageSource to find out the correct HTML code) and set the htmlText of the field to the modified data.
-- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Economy-x-Talk is looking for an amateur painter/cartoonist/poet etc. Contact me http://qery.us/du On 30 jul 2012, at 20:38, Peter Haworth wrote: > I have a scrolling list field which I'm populating with lines of text and > also setting the imagesource of up 5 chars. It turns out that it takes an > average of about one tenth of a second per line to set the imagesources, so > to populate the field with 100 lines takes 10 seconds. > > These images become hotspots for the user to click on and I would like to > stick with that as a user interface if possible but the length of time it's > taking is obviously not acceptable. > > I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions as to how improve the > performance or perhaps another technique to show image hotspots in a line > of text. > > Pete > lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode