azur theme has efficiency problem

[scmorse]

I'm not sure what it is, but in my application (where I might open and close the gallery many times), the azur theme seems to continue working in the background and use up a lot of CPU. I switched to twelve theme because of it.

Also, I sincerely appreciate this project. I tried to use two other gallery libs before this, and couldn't get them to work at all. This one works and looks great. I couldn't find a place to donate, but if anyone can point me, I'd happily donate to support development on this project.

[sammik]

I think, only major difference between Azur an Twelve is, that Azur uses canvas for some visual effects.
Open and close galleries, You mean, they are running at background, but hidden, or you destroy and start it every time?

[scmorse]

So in my app, the user would initialize the gallery and then remove it from the dom many times, but I couldn't find a way to shut off the gallery code after it has been initialized. In azur, there was some loop() function, which does look related to the canvas you mentioned, which kept running after the gallery was destroyed.

[sammik]

Did you try API method "destroy"? https://galleriajs.github.io/docs/api/methods.html#destroy
If it doesnt work, you may try to hack a theme, for me, it seem s to be most easy to disable canvas (comment out line 76, but dont forget to change "," to ";" in previous line
https://github.com/GalleriaJS/galleria/blob/master/src/themes/azur/galleria.azur.js#L76

Not sure, if it can help, just a first idea.