Thanks for the replies guys. I'll try using an external cast as the
swap space and see how that goes. It seems then that using valentina as
a storage place Is helpful but in other ways, yes?
BTW I have to load this many thumbnails because rather than diplaying
pages of thumbnails I have an interactive scrolling strip where several
rows of thrumbnails are displayed. (the search results)
-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Kloss [mailto:martin.kloss (at) gmx D.OT de]
Sent: May 29, 2002 4:37 AM
To: Subscribers of Valentina
Subject: Re: V4MD Picture type, less stressful on ram when loading pics
at runtime?
At 03:43 29.05.2002 -0700, you wrote:
>I currently have a database setup which pulls jpegs into Director as
>bitmap type at runtime. The amount that is loaded into the cast
depends
>on search results (sometimes 100-600 thumbnails). Each thumb nail is
2K
>on disk but in Director as bitmap type is 60K. When I have to load
>about 150 thumbnails from disk the Director program is eating up a
>couple hundred megs of memory (according to ctrl-alt-tab in windows
XP).
why are you importing 100-600 thumbnails? Do you need them all
at the same time on the stage? If not, just load the ones you need
dynamically when needed and unload / delete the ones you don't
need anymore.
The decision whether to store the pictures in the db depends on
various requirements. If you prefer to have them all stored in a single
file, need fast access, don't want to bother with filenames and
directory
paths etc. then store them in Valentina. If you need to dynamically
load an unknown amount of pictures from the outside (i.e. updated
by someone else, who puts the picts into the folder), and don't want
you get a huge database blob file, use the external picts.
In my experience, I have always decided to store the pictures, even
large ones in Valentina, because the it way easier to handle and there's
no way for people to mess with the picts from outside the application.
@Ruslan:
Whatever happened to the plans to add the image object functions
SetImage()
/ GetImage()
to store image objects in a picture or media field?
Martin.
Martin Kloss
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