Thumbnail control and wxImageList limits

[Milan Babuskov]

Stephan Rose wrote:
> I would also advise against loading all the images into an image list. Just 
> get out the calculator...
> 
> 200x200 pixels at 24 bits per pixel is 117 kb per image. So 117 megs every 
> 1,000 images. That is quite some memory consumption just to show a few 
> thumbnails on the screen.
> 
> I would request the images I want from my data source on the fly and maybe 
> cache the last 100 images or so in a circular list so that the oldest ones 
> always automatically get thrown out as new images are put in it.

Thanks, I'll keep this in mind.


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