Re: TOO SLOW list.add(element) OR choice.add(element)

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From: Kendall Helmstetter Gelner
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 00:00

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Luis Miguel Crespo P�rez <lmc@sdsoftware.es> wrote:

>I find to slow adding strings to lists and choices, if I try:
>    for (int i = 0; i < 1000; i++)
>        list.add("Element " + i);
>this takes for ever, and even worse, the list starts scrolling up
>and down while adding elements.
>
>This also happens to Choice components.
>
>Is there a way to avoid it ?
>
>If so, please send an ansawer to:
>    lmc@sdsoftware.es

You should make a ListModel (there should be a DefaultListModel you can
subclass from to make the coding easier), put all of the strings you want
in it, then attach the ListModel to a List with the setModel() call.  It's
all in repaint, or listeners, or any of the other things the others have
pointed out.

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