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Re: JOutlookBar

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On 4/27/2012 10:11 AM, Daniel Pitts wrote:

> On 4/26/12 8:17 PM, Peter Cheung wrote:
>> I already set it to 1ms, but it still runs slowly.
>>
>> So the animation is not smooth.


> You're timer simply calls draw. Also, 1ms is really too fast, and will
> cause more harm than good. You should aim for closer to 30hz->60hz. Try
> around 33ms timer.


I happen to know a little about animation (graphics is a personal hobby 
of mine).  The gold standard in animation is 25 frames per second, or 40 
ms in between frames.

However, as a practical matter, much lower frames rates are acceptable. 
  Some cheaper animation, like some of the early so-called 
"japanimation," used as little as 4 or 6 frames per second in parts of 
their work.

I'd start at 250 ms.  1 ms will clearly overwhelm any normal desktop 
system with too much work.  Get 250 ms working, then see if it can be 
improved.


> Ideally, the "work" for your animation should be done in the timer
> handler too (so that your state changes on the timer, not just a redraw).


This.

Peter, what I've looked at in your code base is pretty bad.  Most of it 
is really ugly generated code.  Nothing has comments.  There's no test 
harness that I saw.  You need to slow down and write some code by hand, 
try to understand what is really going on.  One good class is better 
than 100 cruddy classes, and it is certainly my impression that the 
latter is what you have.

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JOutlookBar Peter Cheung <cmk128@gmail.com> - 2012-04-26 15:29 -0700
  Re: JOutlookBar Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-04-26 16:19 -0700
    Re: JOutlookBar Peter Cheung <cmk128@gmail.com> - 2012-04-26 20:17 -0700
      Re: JOutlookBar Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-04-27 10:11 -0700
        Re: JOutlookBar markspace <-@.> - 2012-04-27 12:33 -0700
          Re: JOutlookBar Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-04-27 13:51 -0700
            Re: JOutlookBar Peter Cheung <cmk128@gmail.com> - 2012-04-28 03:10 -0700
              Re: JOutlookBar Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-04-28 18:03 -0400
          Re: JOutlookBar Peter Cheung <cmk128@gmail.com> - 2012-04-28 03:06 -0700
            Re: JOutlookBar Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-04-28 15:06 -0700
              Re: JOutlookBar Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-04-28 21:08 -0700
                Re: JOutlookBar Peter Cheung <cmk128@gmail.com> - 2012-04-29 00:13 -0700
                Re: JOutlookBar Peter Cheung <cmk128@gmail.com> - 2012-04-29 00:31 -0700
                Re: JOutlookBar Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-04-29 01:56 -0700
                Re: JOutlookBar Peter Cheung <cmk128@gmail.com> - 2012-04-29 07:37 -0700
                Re: JOutlookBar Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-04-29 07:51 -0700
                Re: JOutlookBar Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-04-29 12:01 -0700
                Re: JOutlookBar Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-05-05 19:53 -0400

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