Very recently I needed to improve the generation tens of thousands of images with a Xojo Desktop project. The image generation code had already been written, and takes advantage of several desktop specific features (custom font activation with MBS most specifically).

The process took minutes originally. It was so bad that the initial author of the code stuck a confirmation dialog to the user prior to running the batch. Now, because of the world events, the batches were larger than ever. On a whole it had to be improved.

Obviously the best way to speed this up was to split the batch into chunks for helper processes. This was going to be a new adventure in Xojo for me, and I was ready to take a bite. Read More…

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