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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: khtmlw and memory useage
From:       Martin Jones <mjones () powerup ! com ! au>
Date:       1997-07-29 12:29:07
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Aaron Granick wrote:
> 
> Martin Jones wrote:
> 
> > Its possible, but how would you specify the part you want removed.  You
> > could just modify the HTML and reparse, but this will be slow for large
> > documents.
> >
> > It may be possible to work with the actual objects rather than modifying
> > the html and reparsing.  This would only require a size/position
> > recalculation which is quite fast.  It certainly is possible to modify
> > khtmlw to become an editor, but this would obviously require much work.
> >
> > For your current case it may be possible to have something like
> > setMaximumLines( int ) which causes khtmlw to drop lines from the top
> > when a preset limit is reached.  I could start work on this IF you will
> > continue to use khtmlw.  It may be that khtmlw is just not the best
> > choice for you application.
> >
> > --
> > bye,
> > Martin Jones
> > mjones@kde.org
> 
> I think I have decided not to use html for kirc.  Html is definitely not
> the most efficient way to format text, and all I really want is colors
> and pixmaps, which I can do with a nice subclassing of QTableView, which
> I have started working on.  I am also going to try to have new text
> appear from the bottom up, instead of the top down as with the text
> editing widgets, to simulate a terminal.
> 

I think you have chosen wisely.

-- 
bye,
Martin Jones
mjones@kde.org

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