Path: csiph.com!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Arno Welzel Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript Subject: Re: Unicode signs vs lines "saving clockcycles" Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2020 10:05:46 +0200 Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <149e8fbb-13eb-42d4-8ab4-cb38e0e8bd70o@googlegroups.com> <493f126c-7318-48b0-bca9-8d9d6a85311eo@googlegroups.com> <3eec9e74-d659-41de-92c6-9ac4178521c6o@googlegroups.com> <5c7c4b9e-bf13-457c-bb13-5131653b9d07o@googlegroups.com> <5fa058d3-1fba-4b68-8a3d-586d43b569dao@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net dAEI9y8GxMq51y9KI0wFZQwBt7EvJnBPATuL4BYxAILYG7kSv+ Cancel-Lock: sha1:hDr7ZK34nJ0jwdC6lWcYG87LQ3Y= In-Reply-To: <5fa058d3-1fba-4b68-8a3d-586d43b569dao@googlegroups.com> Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.javascript:38558 Jonas Thörnvall: > Err the things written on the canvas are, tiles, sprites. No. In the context of computer graphis a "sprite" is a bitmap which is *indpendent* from the screen content and can be moved around freely. Also see: One example for the use nowadays is the mouse cursor which is often implemented as a sprite. But "things written on the canvas" is just like paintint something on it. And this will become permanent - a canvas is just a bitmap on which you can paint. You can't write a unicode symbol to a canvas and then move it around like a sprite without destroying the background. -- Arno Welzel https://arnowelzel.de