QListWidget with dynamic icons

SGaist

Hi,

What about delegating the icon load to anther thread and then signal a data change when they are ready ?

Harry123

I would really prefer to avoid creating icons that will never be looked at, if possible.
I might find myself creating 1000 icons, while the user will never look at more than the first few screens.

SGaist

Sorry, I just saw that my suggestion is incomplete. Your model should be queried when needed for the icons so what I was suggesting is that when one is queried, you start loading it and then trigger the dataChanged signal.

Harry123

@SGaist

Could you please add more details about this procedure.
I never used model/view.

SGaist

Which part would like to have more detail on ?

Harry123

@SGaist

I would prefer to use QListWidget, because it is much simpler than using model/view with which I have no experience.
I need some pointers as to what should be done - classes and functions to call.

I myself was thinking more in the direction of connecting to the vertical scrollbar of QListWidget and anticipating scrolls, but I'm not sure I would guess correctly from the scroll events exactly which items will be displayed.

SGaist

If you use QListWidget then you don't have any control over the model so you won't be able to move the image loading part outside of it.

Harry123

@SGaist

I have basically given up on using QListWidget that efficiently.

SGaist

What option did you choose ?

Harry123

@SGaist

I have divided the list into sections, and modified the UI to show only one section at a time.
This solved the performance problem (and maybe even made the UI more user-friendly).

SGaist

It's good when it's more friendly :)