Fastest way to load an array of strings

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Posted 19 years ago by shark92651
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I have an array of strings that I want to load into the SyntaxEditor. The code below works but it is a bit slow and I can watch the scrollbar change size as it loads the lines. What is the fastest way to load an array of strings and how can I suspend all screen updates until the entire array is loaded? In my particular project I have to read from the array and cannot simply convert the array to a single string as I am inserting additional lines into the text as I process the array.

I tried using SuspendPainting()/ResumePainting() but I still can see the scroll bar change size as it loads.

edFileA.SuspendPainting();

for (int i = 0; i < fileA.Length; i++)
{
edFileA.Document.AppendText(fileA[i]);
}

edFileA.ResumePainting();

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Posted 19 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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v4.0 has the ability to suspend lexical parsing which will help however by far the best way to do this is to create a System.Text.StringBuilder and append each line to that. Then do this:
editor.Document.Text = stringBuilder.ToString();
That will only update SyntaxEditor once and will be the fastest.


Actipro Software Support

The latest build of this product (v25.1.0) was released 10 days ago, which was after the last post in this thread.

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