Re: Table View Blues
Re: Table View Blues
- Subject: Re: Table View Blues
- From: j o a r <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 22:49:27 +0100
On Monday, Nov 18, 2002, at 13:43 Europe/Stockholm,
<email@hidden> wrote:
I'm not sure that I agree with using just one table view for
displaying 20.000 records
20,000 is an example. Most real life situations will require a lot
more.
As long as you don't turn into that guy over at Mac OS X Dev that
wanted to display 37 million rows in a table view... ;)
(Thread: "Maximum size for NSTableView?")
That said, NSTableView is provided as a general purpose control -
not suited for very large tables with a high frequency of updates.
OK, fine, sure. Then what control does NS have for large tables?
NSTableView is the only one - but I wouldn't nessecarily rule it out
already.
In our main application we've created our own table view optimized
for our particular needs and this might be something that you need
to do if NSTableView cannot keep up properly.
Yeah, I'm getting that picture. My complaint isn't so much with the
view itself, but with the lack of tidy memory management underneath.
That's where the clocks are saved.
The picture I am getting is that Apple/NS are unsurpassed at graphics,
but that types of business things are a bit unfamiliar for them. I
would hate to give MS the win on this one, but it looks like their
crummy listview, coupled with Cutler's memory management, wins this
round.
Weren't the Cocoa frameworks created for use in the enterprise? I know
that we've successfully used them for heavy lifting for years and years
on a wide variety of platforms - still going strong actually - and the
streams of data we have to deal with in real time is quite something.
I think that Alex and Andreas suggestions on memory management might be
a good thing to look into. Is the memory management "a la Cutler" you
mentioned a Windows only thing, or something that you could use also on
Mac OS X?
j o a r
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