Hi
In my main menu form, I'm using the UltraToolbarsManager and dynamically creating toolbars and buttontools. Here's what I do:
And repeat for each toolbar.
It works fine but it's slow, specifically when it creates the buttontools. It takes over 2 seconds to create 35 buttons. I'm also using an UltraTree and that creates over 700 nodes in about 0.15 seconds.
How can I make it quicker?
Thanks John
Hello John,
I tried this and it always works fine for me so I attached my sample to this post for you. Please review it and feel free to let me know if I misunderstood you or if you have any other questions.
I've found out that it's slow because I'm setting the buttons' image with
ButtonTool:SharedProps:AppearancesSmall:Appearance:Image = Bitmap:FromFile(cImagePath)
Would it be quicker if I use an ImageList, add all our default images into it and use an image in its collection? If a client has created their own images so it's not in the collection, I could still use same Bitmap:FromFile code.
I've tested a coule of things.
Using an ImageList, it takes 0.9 - 1.1 secs.
If I replace the Bitmap:FromFile with NEW Bitmap(cImagePath), it's 1.0 - 1.2 secs.
So it's down from over 2 secs but I'd like to make it under 0.5 sec.
I've found the cause of the problem.
In my code, I check if the image exists before choosing the image from the ImageList or loading it into a BitMap.
If I do the check only if the image isn't in the ImageList, the time drops to 0.18 secs.
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