[KimDaBa] Load image progress bar doesn't appear right away

[Robert L Krawitz]

   From: "Jesper K. Pedersen" <blackie at blackie.dk>
   Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 13:10:32 +0100
   Cc: kimdaba at klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se

   On Wednesday 03 November 2004 13:15, Robert L Krawitz wrote:
   |    From: "Jesper K. Pedersen" <blackie at kde.org>
   |    Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 08:39:17 +0100
   |
   |    On Wednesday 03 November 2004 03:53, Robert L Krawitz wrote:
   |    | The load new images progress bar doesn't appear right away when
   |    | starting up KimDaBa.  It appears that it's updated only every 10
   |    | images or so, but it isn't displayed the first time.  This is very
   |    | noticeable when I've created a bunch of 120 MB scans and am loading
   |    | them for the first time.
   |
   |    Thats a feature of the scrollbar dialog. Namely not to show up before it
   | is certain that the whole progress will take at least 4 seconds.
   |
   | The problem is that it sometimes takes a minute to appear (if the
   | images are very large).  It looks like it's only checking every
   | 10 images or so?

   I guess you are right that it only updates every 10 image. What
   size of images do you have, that takes kimdaba more than a minute
   to just run md5 sums of 10 images?

120 MB (4000 DPI scans of 35 mm film at 16 bit image depth).  If I
were using medium format, it could easily be 300 MB.

It actually takes about 3 seconds per image, so maybe the 1 minute was
a little high of an estimate, but that's a long time for no response.

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