| From: | Tony Rolfe |
| Date: | 8 Sep 2000 at 10:34:31 |
| Subject: | Re: ListViews |
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000 18:42:13 -0700 Curt Esser said:
> Hi Neil,
>
> David is right, as usual. But he forgot to point out what I think is the
> real answer to your question, the part about Dim'ing the list.
>
> Lists are NOT treated the same as a standard array, so the normal method is
> to simply Dim the list to a value much larger than you ever expect to use,
> then add the items as needed.
>
> For example, if I was expecting to have a maximum of 50 ~ 100 items in a
> list, I would Dim it to say 2000, or so to be safe...
>
> The key point is that the list will NOT waste any memory on the unused
> items - it only sets aside the memory for each item when it is actually
> added to the list, whereas Dim'ing a standard array DOES set aside the
> entire memory for the number of items requested, right at the start.
Actually, that's not strictly true (At least I don't think it is).
DIM List Fred.Tyep(2000) actually allocates 2000 headers and the
actual data is allocated by the AddItem() call.
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