TImageEnView.LayersCaching

Declaration

property LayersCaching: Integer;

Description

Whether a cached view of every layer is stored in memory.
Layer caching speeds up display (and access to Bitmap), but uses more memory.

Supported values:

Value	Description
-1	A cached view is stored for each layers. This provides the best performance, but can use a lot of memory if there are many layers
0	No cached views of layers are stored. This uses the least memory
>0	Specifies a maximum number of cached views to store

Default: 0

Layer Performance Properties

To improve the performance in layer applications, consider the following properties:
◼LayersCaching: Caches the view of each layer. Much faster but uses more memory.
◼LayersFastDrawing: Display quality of layers (and whether the quality view is delayed).
◼LayerFastDrawingEffects specifies which features are disabled while fast drawing.
◼ZoomFilter/DelayZoomFilter: Display quality of images (and whether the quality view is delayed). This option is ignored if LayersFastDrawing is active
◼LayersRotationUseFilterOnPreview: Whether the quality filter (LayersRotationFilter) is previewed without applying the rotation

Review the Demos\LayerEditing\Layers_AllTypes\ demo for example code.

Example

// Cache all layers
ImageEnView1.LayersCaching := -1;

// Cache a maximum of 30 layers
ImageEnView1.LayersCaching := 30;

// Disable all layer caching
ImageEnView1.LayersCaching := 0;

TImageEnView.LayersCaching