[news.eclipse.tools.gef] Re: Using GEF with a large number of children

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Patrick Clark wrote:

> I am having a problem with GEF (and SWT) where I have a large number of 
> children to display on my Palette (500+).  These children are all 
> ImageFigure children with one or many connections between them.  I am 
> getting a "no more handles" exception.  I have read all the posts and 
> articles about this OS dependency, but now I am curious if I can make 
> this work if I want to have that large number of images on the palette.
>
> I am trying to manage my resources but I am stuck at what to do now.  I 
> have implemented Image caching (is this a good idea?) because alot of 
> the ImageFigures on the palette are repeated images.  However the image 
> caching didn't seem to help.
>
> However, I am not sure where to go next to make this work.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Patrick