The icon editor becomes slow after importing glyph

[bbplay110@gmail.com]

I am using the built-in icon editor of Labview2019
I put a bunch of png icons up to 250mb into the glyph folder and clicked the refresh button. After a long wait, those icons finally appeared in the icon editor.
Great.......?
Nope! After that, my icon editor became very slow, and I had to wait a long time for a response to do anything.
Besides removing the newly added glyph, is there any way to make it respond faster?

[santo_13]

Do you mean, you've some png files up to 250Mb in size? or the total size of all png in the folder sum up to 250Mb.

If it is the former, you can downsize them as the VI Icons are limited to 32x32 pixels.

[altenbach]

250mb is a quarter of a bit, so your units make no sense. 

You need to be significantly more clear. How many files?

[bbplay110@gmail.com]

Google Translate doesn't seem to fully convey what I mean. Sorry for not being clear enough. English is not my native language.
There are 47,026 images, totaling 250Mb, downloaded from the Open icon library. Sizes range from 16x16 to 128x128, all are square

[altenbach]

That sounds like madness! I don't think the code is optimized to read tens of thousands of images and render them in the icon editor UI in a reasonable amount of time.

[santo_13]

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bbplay110@gmail.com wrote:

Google Translate doesn't seem to fully convey what I mean. Sorry for not being clear enough. English is not my native language.
There are 47,026 images, totaling 250Mb, downloaded from the Open icon library. Sizes range from 16x16 to 128x128, all are square

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How do you even search and pick an image from the 47k files in that folder?

[Hooovahh · Accepted solution]

Yeah as others have said that is way too many glyphs.  And keep in mind all LabVIEW subVI icons are 32x32 pixels at most.  Any you have that is larger than that isn't going to be useful.  Here is a post I made years ago that has some common ones I use.  The zip is 3MB.