Significantly Improving the BKit Graph GUI Widget Sync Code
Today I spent some time working on removing the unnecessary calls in the 'simple' BKit graphs that synchronize the graph to the GUI widgets that allow the user to configure the graph. There were two biggies - first off, when adding a column label to the graph, the standard procedure is to sync the GUI widgets to the change at the end of the change. But if we're setting all of the column headers - as we would be at the onset, then we're calling this a lot more than we need to. Fix there is to be clever and set the column headers on the underlying graph - save the last one. Do that last one like the original and have it sync the GUI widgets at the end. This way, (n-1) are done quickly, and the last one is done completely.
The next issue was the updating of the secondary Y pick list based on the addition of columns of data to the secondary Y. Again, this makes sense for the addition of a single column of data, but for the initial set-up, we need to pause the listener handler while adding them, and then resume it when we're done. Simple enough, but to find it took a little bit of time.
I'm not fooling myself into thinking that this is going to make the graphs faster or more responsive - this is a quicker set-up, that's all. But as it was a linear problem, the larger the data set, the more improvement we'll notice. So it's not bad. Plus... don't do something twice if you don't have to. Makes good sense.