Images in memory

2000-06-13 Thread Jacqueline Landman Gay
I've got a stack that repeatedly sets the filename property of various images. Is there a way to keep these in memory even after the image content changes so that, once loaded in, they are immediately available? Sort of a pre-buffer-and-store thing? I know I could store the images in the stack

Re: Images in memory

2000-06-13 Thread Dave Cragg
At 5:14 PM -0500 6/13/00, Jacqueline Landman Gay wrote: I've got a stack that repeatedly sets the filename property of various images. Is there a way to keep these in memory even after the image content changes so that, once loaded in, they are immediately available? Sort of a

Re: Subject: Images in memory

2000-06-13 Thread Raymond E. Griffith
On 6/13/2000 11:05 PM Jacqueline Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a stack that repeatedly sets the filename property of various images. Is there a way to keep these in memory even after the image content changes so that, once loaded in, they are immediately available? Sort of

Re: Subject: Images in memory

2000-06-13 Thread andu
Not exactly. Getting the filename isn't a problem; I'm trying to avoid the hit that happens when you load an image from disk. I spent the evening putting the images into the stack and changing everything to use buttons with icons. It seems snappier. But if there is a way to "preload" images

Re: Subject: Images in memory

2000-06-13 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Jacqueline Landman Gay at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if there is a way to "preload" images and have them stay in RAM, I'd like to know for future reference. You can load them offscreen. One technique you might use is to reference images locally within your stack via a button object.

Re: Subject: Images in memory

2000-06-13 Thread Phil Davis
Jacqueline Landman Gay wrote: "Raymond E. Griffith" wrote: On 6/13/2000 11:05 PM Jacqueline Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a stack that repeatedly sets the filename property of various images. Is there a way to keep these in memory even after the image