VirtualTree problems. Soft-gems = no support at all.

[busybyte]

maybe there is too much lag at your paintmethod, so the global(cause out of systemresources?) aPng/tempbmp/newiconbmp will be overwritten before finished the paint and the output becomes undefined.i solved this imagelist problem, using a pretty quick pointerlist to a recordtype of my images. it works up to 6000-7000 bitmaps. to get more, i sequencially load and free them, depending on the first and last visible items.always watch your variables not to be overwritten
too quick from the next call.