low speed with big images

[Robby Stephenson]

I'll keep your suggestion in mind. I still think the simplest and easiest 
solution is not to put 3-20 MB images in the collection in the first place. 
Tellico is not an image database program.

Robby

On Thursday 20 July 2006 9:25, Alfredo Quesada wrote:
> Hi
>
> as i said in a previous post people who have big (from
> 3 to 20 mb, probably png files) images in their
> collections (maybe film covers) use to feel an
> important speed lack because of this. when going to
> load an entry probably tellico has to create at
> runtime 2 thumbnails: one for the window where you can
> edit the entry, and another smaller that is shown when
> you select the entry.
>
> if this is true i think you should change this. a way
> to improve the program is to create those thumbnails
> only once (the first time that are needed) and them
> you could save them into the data folder. you could
> have 3 subfolders, 1 for the real image and 2 for
> medium and small thumbnails (i think there's no
> problem by using the same name for all them, so it
> would be easier to manage their names).
> by doing it this way when selecting an entry you only
> need to load a pair of smaller images (and you could
> even load firstly only the smaller one, and load the
> intermediate if the user tries to edit the entry, and
> ONLY if it decides to take a look at the tab where you
> can set the image). i'm sure that at your tabbedPane
> (or whatever name it has at QT) you can detect when a
> tab is selected, and then you can load the image.. if
> the tab of the image is not selected you don't really
> need to create/load the intermediate thumbnail.
>
> considering that you only need extra disk space for
> the thumbnails (that is, small files) disk
> requirements wouldn't be a problem.
>
> regards
>
>
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