TableView API, no lazy retrieval of visible cell content possible?

[Werner Lehmann]

Robert,

I think Tomas is right, load your thumbnails on demand when updateItem 
is called for an item with missing thumbnail. You say that the cell of a 
visible item gets reused for another item. If that is the case I guess 
that the item is "moved" to another cell. Wouldn't it be possible to 
have an image property on your items and the lazy loading is done on the 
item, triggered when the item is passed to updateItem of any cell? That 
should trigger the demand-loading and it would be robust against the 
tableview exchanging cells for individual items.

As to the question when to start or stop lazy loading for items, I would 
add the load-demands to a stack. Each time the image for a new item is 
requested it is put to the top of the stack and you have one or more 
threads processing items on the stack (LIFO). An an image is requested 
which is already on the stack move it to the top of the stack. If an 
item is removed from a cell remove it from the stack. That should do it.

Werner

On 28.01.2015 09:30, Robert Krüger wrote:
> Doesn't help. The patterns of this property being changed are just as
> unusable for my purposes as with the other approaches (e.g. I can clearly
> see that item is set to a different value for a cell that is still visible,
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