JJ,
> The rendered images should be cached and be stored as part of the
> items' data for quick retrieval.
Whould you mind it very much to first try to help me find an answer to my
question to how to influence the keyboard timeout for the listviews search
function ?
You see, that one would probably solve al my problems in a way that has
likely the least ammount of side effects (as always, I do not mind to be
shown to be incorrect here).
What I mean ? Your "caching" solution just moves the delay to the start of
the program, causing a "go brew some coffee and drink it" delay there. If
you mean I should pre-generate them than you introduce a "how do I keep them
in sync" problem.
Both solutions either need a lot of memory (caching using an imagelist) or
quite a file (caching them in a "database" of sorts).
If yoiu are thinking of storing the thumbnails back into the image files
they came from than that has its own problem : not all image formats allow
it.
My own idea for I can't get a hold on that keyboard timeout I will probably
just generate-and-load the first matching thumbnail, and only (lazy) load
the other thumbnails after a keystoke timeout (which I wil try to set a bit
longer than the "end of search word" timeout - watever it is).
IOW, I've been thinking about how to solve the problem myself before even
considering posting here. And for some odd reason I would like to try to go
thru them starting with the simpelest, easiest and least side-effects one
first - and than, if needed, work my way up. :-)
Regards,
Rudy Wieser