Re: GtkTree*

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Tim Janik <timj gtk org> writes: 
> hm, i'm not sure what you mean with incremental reflow

Same thing the text widget does. All expensive computations are done
incrementally, in idle handlers.

You initially pretend each line/row is 0-height, immediately compute
the real height of those that are onscreen, then compute the heights
of the other lines/rows in an idle handler that does a small number of
rows/lines at a time. 

freeze/thaw just delays your doom, it doesn't solve the problem of
locking up for a long time as you compute things. i.e. with
freeze/thaw you may be able to handle a few more rows, but with
incremental reflow you can scale to as many as you have memory for.
(Assuming you avoid other linear algorithms.)

Havoc