help with speedy graphics

[Monte Goulding]

>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.

Just out of interest have you tried using a single polygon graphic with
markers and no line and just setting the points. That should be very fast.

Cheers

Monte