Loading large # of characters into a Text Area

[Jean-Yves_Pochez]

the textarea is really not made for handling a huge amount of characters.
it does it but becomes very slow with huge numbers of chars.

may be this can help :

Help: Why does assigning StyledText to a TextArea so slow?

You should read xDev - was in my Tips&Tricks column Public Sub BeginFastEditing(Extends TA As TextArea) #If TargetCocoa Then Dim docView As Integer = TA.DocumentView ' Dim storage As Integer = TA.TextStorage( docView ) Dim storage As Integer = TextStorage( docView ) Declare Sub beginEditing Lib "AppKit" Selector "beginEditing" ( obj As Integer ) beginEditing( storage ) #EndIf End Sub and Public Sub EndFastEditing(Extends TA As TextArea) #I…