Re: CFileDialog + Caching
"Chris" <Chris@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Hi. I have a question. When I open my file-dialog and traverse into a
specific folder and afterwards I close the dialog, I store the last
directory. The problem is that there are 5000 files in this directory and
when I will reopen the filedialog I wait 5 seconds until the dialog is
displayed (is caused by that the file-dialog must traverse into the init
directory with the 5000 files). Is there any opportunity to cache such
directories with many files, so that I only have to wait some seconds when
I
traverse into that folder the first time? th.x cu chris
Is this your own dialog, and not the standard File Open one? If so, you
could rewrite it to get info only from the visible files and not all 5000.
That way you delay getting the info from the files that you don't yet need.
That's a better optimization that caching the 5000 files, because who knows
how the directory has changed before you show the dialog a second time, and
your cache may be outdated.
Maybe you could use the standard File Open dialog instead. It takes care of
things like this.
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