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Comment by amelius

5 hours ago

> when the item is invisible, that state becomes irrelevant.

What happens when the item moves out of view, e.g. because the user scrolls down?

State should be preserved, because the user might scroll back up.

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flohofwoe  4 hours ago

Once the item becomes visible, the application's UI code provides the item's state again.

E.g. pseudocode:

    for (firstVisibleItemIndex .. lastVisibleItemIndex) |itemIndex| {
        ui_list_item(itemIndex, listItemValues[itemIndex]);
    }

For instance Dear ImGui has the concept of a 'list clipper' which tells the application the currently visible range of a list or table-column and the application only provides the state of the currently visible items to the UI system.

  • amelius  4 hours ago

    Ok, but now items 1,000 through 10,000 are deleted from the data container.

    How does the immediate mode system know that the corresponding state can be deleted too?

    Does the system provide tools for that or does the burden lie on my application code?

    • flohofwoe  4 hours ago

      Same way as for regular ui items, if the application's ui code no longer "mentions" those items, their state can be deleted (assuming the immediate mode tracks hidden items for some reason).