[mythtv] MythMusic maintainer?

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Wed Oct 1 04:22:13 EDT 2003


On Tuesday 30 September 2003 10:57 pm, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> One of the drawbacks of MythMusic as it is now is the way it handles the
> tree list in the playback view (UIManagedTreeList, I think).  I think only
> MythMusic uses this widget (well, I think MythVideo recently started using
> it too, but I digress).  Anyway, for a really large playlist, it takes a
> long time to build the list GUI, because it has so many items.  I wanted to
> look into an alternate approach that has been used by my company in the
> past. Basically, a list widget class that, instead of building all the
> items as list item objects, it just creates the *visible* list items, and
> changes their contents to reflect the current window into the data set.  In
> this way we could reduce memory requirements and provide a much-needed
> speed boost.
>
> What say ye?

MythGame uses that widget, but it builds the tree on demand, so it's quick.

Isaac


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