Jan,
Translucent lines are somewhat slower on 1.4 (Windows version) than
previous version for the same reason that other translucency
operations are somewhat slower; we can and usually do put the
Swing back buffer in video memory to improve the speed of various
simple GUI operations (such as
.
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Jan
- Original Message -
From: Chet Haase [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Jan Bösenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 5:29 PM
Subject: Re: [JAVA2D] Performance of translucent line drawing
Jan,
Translucent lines are somewhat slower on 1.4 (Windows
Hi Jan,
The short answer to the fillRect vs. drawLine question is for the
developers to always use the simplest API call that matches their
needs.
Rectangles are, well, a box of pixels (unless you are transformed in
which case it might be a tilted box of pixels).
Lines are complicated little
We are currently working on improving performance of our nice little product that
hopefully will give Java on the client some additional momentum.
While testing we have noticed that drawLine(x1, y1, x2, y2) in JRE 1.4 is significant
slower with translucent colors than with opaque colors (and
