Re: Hacker's Fate

FROM : Alex Rice
DATE : Fri Jan 17 23:11:58 2003

On Friday, January 17, 2003, at 12:02  PM, zauhar wrote:

> This is going to be a concern for me too, and I confess I did not
> follow the previous thread closely enough.
>
> Simply put, has anyone got a working app that displays, say, 1,000,000
> rows through a table view with reasonable performance? I want to
> implement an application that can do that.
>
> By the way, at least one application in my area of interest (the
> Molecular Operating Environment) seems able to do this in X-windows,
> so it clearly is possible. I was shocked at how rapidly MOE could
> scroll through an enormous table with 100,000's of compounds - and
> display a little chemical structure at the front of each row for good
> measure!


1) It was a troll. Search the list archives for a recent thread about
this very issue, started by rixstep.

2) NSTableView is quite scalable. The long and short of it is that the
ONLY bottleneck is how you implement your NSTableDataSource object.
Here is an example I posted, with extremely alpha quality code mind
you, that shows how to use NSTableView with millions of rows.

http://www.mindlube.com/download/files/Tabularity%200.1.dmg

Now some will say this proves nothing, because it's not a stable app or
it's not finished, or it's sloppily coded or whatever. But that's
totally evading the point. The point is very simple. Be smart in
implementing your NSTableDataSource.

  Alex Rice <<email_removed>> | Mindlube Software  |
http://mindlube.com

  what a waste of thumbs that are opposable
  to make machines that are disposable  -Ani DiFranco
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