"Michael Maes" <michael.maes@community.nospam> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> We have been using ImageLists in our Projects extensively.
> Many forms have two ILs with nearly 900 bmp's each.
> They are configured: 32Bit, Fuchsia, 16x16 (and one 24x24).
>
> In VS2003 there was no issue with this.
> Upgrading to VS2005 however makes it impossible to open those forms in
> Design-View.
> We have tested it with a blank project, and yes, even then it does not
> work.
>
> -Take a clean project
> -Add a form
> -Add 2 ImageLists
> -Set to 32bit, 16x16 & 24x24, Fuchsia
> -Add about 900 bitmaps to each list
> -Save
> -Close form
> -Close VS
> -Open VS & SLN
> -Open Form in Designmode
>
> Watch the PageFile go up and up up and up up and up.... finally down and
> down down and down down and down....
>
> But no form is drawn.
>
> I have tested it on machines with 3Ghz, 2,16GHz (Centrino Duo), Xeon Dual
> Proc, all ranging from 1 to 2 GHz Memory. Just to say they are "quite
> performant".
>
> Is this a (known) bug or a ImageList limitation?
>
> TIA,
>
>
> Michael
>

"AMDRIT" <amd***@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I am not noticing a real issue on my machine.  Other than the resource
>files are huge and there is a load time (~30 secs) while loading the
>imagelist's stream.  It seems to be just as fast to populate the images
>collection from bitmaps on the harddrive.  Perhaps you can alter your
>solution so that you are not embedding the graphics in the exe.
>
> Here is my test,  given a form, place a checkbox, a numeric updown box, a
> picturebox, and three imagelists on the form.  To generate the 900 images,
> uncomment the code in Form1_Load (Make sure you comment after the first
> run so that #1 load times are not affected, #2 the application doesn't
> crash trying to save the bitmap to disk.)
>
> Once you have the images, add the 900 images to imagelist1 and imagelist2.
> imagelist3 will load them from bmps on the drive.
>
> System Spec's Dell 2.8GHz, 1GB RAM.  I should note that I have several
> office docs open, three VS IDE's open, virus scan, media player, outlook,
> outlook express, and two windows explorer windows.
>
> Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
> System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
>
>    For i As Integer = 1 To 900
>      '  Dim bmp As Bitmap
>
>      '  bmp = New Bitmap(16, 16,
> System.Drawing.Imaging.PixelFormat.Format32bppRgb)
>
>      '  For x As Integer = 0 To 15
>      '    For y As Integer = 0 To 15
>      '      bmp.SetPixel(x, y,
> System.Drawing.Color.FromArgb(CInt(Int((Integer.MaxValue - 1 + 1) * Rnd()
> + 1))))
>      '    Next
>      '  Next
>
>      '  Me.ImageList2.Images.Add(i.ToString, bmp)
>      '  bmp.Save(String.Format("C:\Pictures\temp\{0}.bmp", i))
>      '  'bmp.Dispose()
>
>      Dim sFile As String
>      sFile = String.Format("C:\Pictures\temp\{0}.bmp", i)
>      Me.ImageList3.Images.Add(i, New Bitmap(sFile))
>    Next
>
>    Me.NumericUpDown1.Minimum = 0
>    Me.NumericUpDown1.Maximum = Me.ImageList3.Images.Count - 1
>    Me.NumericUpDown1.DecimalPlaces = 0
>
>  End Sub
>
>  Private Sub NumericUpDown1_ValueChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object,
> ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles NumericUpDown1.ValueChanged
>
>    Dim g As System.Drawing.Graphics
>
>    g = Me.PictureBox1.CreateGraphics
>    g.Clear(Color.Black)
>
>    If CheckBox1.Checked Then
>      Try
>        g.DrawImage( _
>              Me.ImageList3.Images(CType(Me.NumericUpDown1.Value,
> Integer)), 0, 0)
>      Catch ex As Exception
>        '
>      End Try
>    Else
>      Try
>        g.DrawImage( _
>              Me.ImageList2.Images(CType(Me.NumericUpDown1.Value,
> Integer)), 0, 0)
>      Catch ex As Exception
>        '
>      End Try
>    End If
>
>  End Sub
>
>
> "Michael Maes" <michael.maes@community.nospam> wrote in message
> news:C0B5551A-B8EE-4B25-B620-93B82DFDB9BF@microsoft.com...
>> Hi,
>>
>> We have been using ImageLists in our Projects extensively.
>> Many forms have two ILs with nearly 900 bmp's each.
>> They are configured: 32Bit, Fuchsia, 16x16 (and one 24x24).
>>
>> In VS2003 there was no issue with this.
>> Upgrading to VS2005 however makes it impossible to open those forms in
>> Design-View.
>> We have tested it with a blank project, and yes, even then it does not
>> work.
>>
>> -Take a clean project
>> -Add a form
>> -Add 2 ImageLists
>> -Set to 32bit, 16x16 & 24x24, Fuchsia
>> -Add about 900 bitmaps to each list
>> -Save
>> -Close form
>> -Close VS
>> -Open VS & SLN
>> -Open Form in Designmode
>>
>> Watch the PageFile go up and up up and up up and up.... finally down and
>> down down and down down and down....
>>
>> But no form is drawn.
>>
>> I have tested it on machines with 3Ghz, 2,16GHz (Centrino Duo), Xeon Dual
>> Proc, all ranging from 1 to 2 GHz Memory. Just to say they are "quite
>> performant".
>>
>> Is this a (known) bug or a ImageList limitation?
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>>
>> Michael
>>
>
>