Am I abusing posters?

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I am attempting to compile data for a large artwork collection. The attribute data includes links to the actual HEIC photographs stored outside of Tinderbox. I was also using those HEIC files as a PosterURL link. Additionally, I put an HTML link to the photo files in the text pane so that I can see reasonably sized images in the preview pane when in Outline View.

All was fine until I got to around 60 posters. At that point, Tinderbox started freezing up. Claude’s advice was to switch to jpeg files to reduce memory constraints. So, I converted my $PosterURL links to tie to jpeg files. That sped up the poster rendering process, but I am still having frequent crashes as I add more files.

There are probably around 200 artist works that I want in my Tinderbox file. If posters are causing usability issues, I will have to stop using them. But they do make my map view gallery of pictures pretty easy to browse through.

Am I headed in the wrong direction by using photos of artwork in PosterURLs in a large art collection?

Tinderbox version 11.5.2, MacOS 26.2

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I have no idea. Nobody has: it’s never been done before. I think this should work, but I don’t know. If it cannot be done now for some reason, it may be feasible to support. Or, maybe it won’t; 200 poster notes means you have 200 WKWebKit views, which is roughly like opening 200 Safari windows at once. (I don’t have any idea whether that causes trouble. or not, either.)

If you get a crash log, email it to me. If you get more, send those too.

This holds for everyone. Crash logs have always been valuable, but in recent months Claude and I have learned a lot about diagnosing Tinderbox crashes. This is especially important when, as here, you’re going where no one has gone before.

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For what it’s worth, I did make 72 poster notes in a single Tinderbox map without trouble.

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