Re: [wxperl-users] wxTextCtrl very slow on large data files

[Peter G. <pe...@pg...>]

Yes. I also tried Freeze/Thaw. It didn't help.

On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 12:42 +0100, Manni Heumann wrote:
> Did you try hiding the control before loading in the text?
> 
> Peter Gordon wrote:
> > I have a 10MB file which I am trying to load using wxTextCtrl, and I am
> > using wxPerl.
> > 
> > I have a string $text, which contains the complete text, and the
> > offending line is:
> > 
> > $self->AppendText($text) ; 
> > 
> > 
> > On Windows, the load time is 5 secs.
> > 
> > On Fedora 5, the load time is 15 secs if I set LANG=C
> > and 85 secs if I set LANG=en_US.UTF-8.
> > 
> > Does anyone know if there is a faster way to load text, using this
> > widget or a different widget or do I have an intrinsic problem with gtk?
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Peter
>