Re:Film strip
"Newman99" <
nospam@nospam.com>wrote in message
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I want to ad a film strip to one of my forms.
I found an example using graphical option buttons on a picture box
within a picture box with a scroll bar. The option buttons hold the
thumbnails, the inner picture box is scrolled.
Is this the best way to do this?
It?s not likely I?ll have more than a few hundred images. Is it
practical to create all the thumbnails at once or should they be created
on the fly as the images are scrolled?
Thanks,
This is not something that can be determined before hand. 'Performance' in
this situation will be determined by your problem domain, your user and his
perception. eg., is this something that a user will open and then likely
immediate browse to the bottom? Or is it more likely they will lesurely
scroll as needed? Do we want to annoy the User with a delay in the
beginning, or incrementally as she scrolls?
Also depends on your application. Is there some preliminary interaction in
the beginning that would allow the strip to be built in the background? Or
are these thumbnails something that is only known at the time you decide to
build it?
Also consider that scrolling even a "few hundred" makes for a very awkward
UI. You may want to add some additional organization/navigation.
But in any case - you need to test within YOUR domain.
-ralph
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