Thanks Lex! That did even out the speed a lot. As you say, it could still
feel more responsive, but its a big help.

There is one minor visual discrepancy with the LargeLists patch. Before
applying it, the selected item had red text with a grey background. After
the patch, the selected item has a thin black rectangle around it. Probably
its the way Celeste likes things to look (I notice that w/o LargeLists,
Celeste first does the black rectangle(momentarily), then the red text).
Other than that, everything looks good.

Eddie

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lex Spoon" <lex at cc.gatech.edu>
To: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2002 11:19 AM
Subject: Re: Speeding up the Browser
> Ah, if it's the UI bogging down on large lists, then my LargeLists patch
> might fix this up....  It avoids calculating string sizes for all of the
> entries in the list.  You just load the patch and get this benefit -- no
> tweaking of Browser is necessary.  (LargeLists also has an alternative
> way to specify the strings; the model can supply individual elements
> instead of having to supply the entire list.  This is a big saving in
> Celeste, where even *calculating* the lines is expensive.)
>
> Okay, with LargeLists, it still seems It still seems a little sluggish
> to me, but it no longer matters how many items are in the list.  Morph
> and HandMorphForReplay are selected equally fast.
>
>
> -Lex
>
>