-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Teg wrote: > I do that fairly often in my program, I've found performance wise it's > better to just load them up. Even to use a thread to load them and > post partial results to the GUI so, the loading's dynamic. 10-60,000 > items can be efficiently displayed, at least in Windows if you use a > virtual list control. Much over 60,000 items and I see a touch of > stalling on column sorts and the like. I've had as many as 200-250,000 > items in a list control and it's somewhat slow though still usable.
I can't imagine any user would scroll through 60,000 items! You are far better off listing the first 250 or similar amount and providing a way for the user to refine their query, or really request all items. Roger -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFmUlBmOOfHg372QQRAucQAKDIuiHkKcQT/2T1HcKix08dOLNy1wCfQJ5y KRy/uIxJ5yI6Fx7d8r//Q+0= =JK/+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------