I thought this would be a simple find but I’ve been struggling to find something simple that does what I’m looking for and I’ve been stuck on it for a few days. Basically, I have a ListView which displays loads of images, however the images load from top to bottom and the lower images wont load before the top ones have finished.

For obvious performance reasons I’ve set the backgroundLoading priority to true:

Image image = new Image(url, true);

And this does alot for what I want, however the fact it only loads from top to bottom has presented me with two problems:

1. When my user scrolls far down in the list, I want to create an event which sets the on screen images to load immediately, I don’t want it to wait for the images super far above images to load first, so I’m hoping I can find a way to simply load these images (which are already in the loading queue mind that) before the ones above, and then when it’s done it keeps loading the images above.

2. When my user clicks the image, it opens a panel which displays another image loaded from a new link retrieved when clicked, and alike above, these image won’t load until all the others have loaded. So I would like to set the priority of this loading image to top priority.

Solutions I have come up with:

• One is creating the image without background loading, but I do not wish to do this since it freezes my whole program until the image loads.
• Another is to use Image.cancel() on all of my images to stop the loading, and then load the new images, and then set all the cancelled image back to load. But I felt this was inefficient but if there’s no better way I’ll think more on this idea.

TL;DR How do I load an image in the background before other images currently being loading the background. Thanks.