iGwen

Well I am currently developing an application for a customer in visual basic .net 2007. The application has to load a series of thumbnails pictures from a directory. The directories contain the original sized pictures (measuring up to 3.5 MB a piece). I decided to put resized pictures into my imagelist, so instead of 3500*2400 something they get to be 120*80. I did this to keep the memory usage low. When the user double clicks it opens a full screen view of the original picture.

This part of the program works just fine. Until I decide to load a really huge folder (750 pictures +- 1.3GB). It takes a whopping 5 to 7 minutes to load every single thumbnail.

I’m trying to find an optimized way to load in the thumbnails but so far I haven’t had any luck, the program just grabs all cpu activity for itself. I’ve consulted several other programmers but none have got a clue how to increase the speed.

I guess I’ll just have to rethink the whole thumbnail thing. Sigh…

Well here’s a picture of what I’ve got so far:

Going back to my roots yeaaaaah, back to my roots, thatahatahathaaa..

So these past few days I have been checking out the C++ syntax. Due to past experiences with several languages I’ve gotten a pretty decent idea of what they are talking about. I’m looking forward to learning more about this programming language. If anyone has got some pretty decent articles concerning this language please send them to me, I can always use decent reference material.

I really haven’t got enough experience yet to call it a better language then the other ones I’ve got to know over the years:

• C#
• Visual Basic 6 / .net
• Java
• Pascal (the shame)
• Basic (a long long time ago, in a galaxy far far away)

Yet I am confident that it is truely a very powerful program language.

In other news, tonight at 6 pm local time apple will introduce a sh*tload of new products upon the world and will go into deeper detail about the features of the new leopard Macos. I’m very curious about the OS itself, I couldn’t care less about the other rumorred gadgets (itv, iphone, ibrator,…).

And I am STILL waiting for my Wii! Come on Nintendo, what’s keeping you?