Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:08:09 -0400 Christopher Michael > <cpmicha...@comcast.net> > said: > >> Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: >>> On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:52:10 -0400 Christopher Michael >>> <cpmicha...@comcast.net> said: >>> >>>> Seems elm_genlist has issues :( >>>> >>>> Apparently you can only add about 11 subitems before problems start :( >>>> >>>> Basically, I created a "file tree" using elm_genlist_add. When listing >>>> out directories, I get to e->trunk->E-MODULES-EXTRA and the problems >>>> start. If I add the subdirs to modules-extra, I can only add about 11 >>>> subitems (which all appear fine under e->trunk->E-MODULES-EXTRA), but >>>> anything after #11 appears at the end of the genlist...very odd so seems >>>> there is a bug in genlist somewhere :( >>>> >>>> I've uploaded some code for those brave enough to investigate this: >>>> http://devilhorns.us/files/echelon.tar.gz. >>>> >>>> This doesn't need to be 'installed' or anything, just build it, run it, >>>> and expand the tree to e->trunk->E-MODULES-EXTRA and you will see that >>>> after about subitem #11, the rest get added to the end of the genlist. >>>> >>>> I took a look at it myself, but no luck :( >>> hmm i don't know what causes it. >>> >>> when u add an item to genlist it goes into a queue. all the params are >>> stored in that queue item (the item info, what item its above/below etc.). >>> this queue is processed in idle time to become real usable items. this is >>> to handle the "i want a list with 5,000,000 items" case or so. ie code adds >>> a stupid # of items. every item needs to at least be realized once, set up, >>> size calculated etc. so a scroller/scrollbar can display a size and >>> position. as this can be prohibitive, it's farmed off to be "done over >>> time" to keep the app interactive. my guess is something might go wrong >>> here, but i can't see what it is. why the 11th level? makes no sense. >>> >>> >> Yea, doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me either :( There is no >> hard-coded limit to the number of subitems right ? (Would seem silly to >> me) ... perhaps something is getting lost (item's parent) when the queue >> gets processed ? > > dunno. but why would it get lost there and not randomly at any level or all > the > time? > Yea, very good question ... Sadly, I don't have the answer :( I've updated elementary today and retried it, but the problem is still there. Not sure if this is related to the queue, or the scrollers, or what ....
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