Slow animation on OS X

Judy Perry jperryl at ecs.fullerton.edu
Tue Aug 10 13:26:21 EDT 2004


I think this is a known issue... about to go away along with the animation
builder...

:(

Judy

On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Greg Hall wrote:

> Hi. I just started using revolution trial on OS X, and it works good so
> far but I am having a problem with animation being uselessly slow on OS X.
>
> I am going thru the animation builder tutorial.
>
> When I play an animation using the Animation Builder, it works exactly
> like it should, the circle fades in nicely, the text moves nice and
> smoothly across the window.
>
> When I play the same animation in browse mode, or in a standalone app, the
> animation of the cirlce is the same, but the text is awful - I see about 6
> frames out of 60! I tried animating the circle instead to see if it's just
> text, and got the same result.
>
> The PPC standalone works fairly smoothly under OS X Classic emulation, you
> just have to run it a couple of times to get it going at optimal frame
> rate.
>
> I quit all other running apps and tried rebooting just to be sure the app
> gets enough cpu time.
>
> Why do OS X native apps animate objects so slowly? Is there anything I can
> do about it? It's too slow to even be usable as an application.
>
> My system:
>
> G4 400Mhz
> 1GB ram
> Revolution 2.2.1
>
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> Greg Hall
> greghall at uvic.ca
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