help with speedy graphics

[Trevor DeVore]

On Jul 13, 2004, at 6:52 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote:

> On Jul 13, 2004, at 6:48 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote:
>> Thanks Trevor, but that made only a marginal difference - it reduced 
>> the time for drawing a 5000 point dataset (with 4x4 pixel rectangles) 
>>  from 690 ticks to 670 ticks (still over 10 seconds elapsed time).
>
> As Scott mentioned, this is a lot of objects.  I hadn't looked at the 
> the number of objects you were trying to create before posting.  I'm 
> not sure what your needs are but perhaps you could create the objects 
> in batches.  You could create 100 (random number I picked) objects 
> each time a function is called.  When the function is finished it 
> calls itself again in 10 ticks or so and continues where it left off.  
> Just an idea.

I forgot to mention that the point of my suggestion was that the 
objects would draw with each batch so there was visual feedback much 
sooner then waiting for the entire loop to finish.



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Trevor DeVore
Blue Mango Multimedia
trevor at mangomultimedia.com