i'll suggest this again :-) when the score changes, convert to a string then, save it away, and draw that each frame. at least then, you're only doing an allocation when it changes.
good enough? >My new method doesn't have problems with concatenating but no solution >so far has gotten around converting an integer into a String or >CharSequence. Any time you put an integer where a String should be, >java automatically uses Integer.toString(i) to build a String out of >it which allocates a char[] and also makes a new String. > >So, besides ripping out stringSize and getChars from integer and >holding my own char[] for the converted int, is there a clean way to >handle that without new allocations? > >On May 25, 4:29 pm, Jason Proctor <ja...@particularplace.com> wrote: >> i think Mark is saying that you could redraw the score separately >> from the label, potentially saving an implicit new StringBuffer >> (stuff).toString () ? >> >> if score is a number, then it will need to make a new String anyway. >> but you could cache the string of the score until the score changes, >> so that drawing the score becomes drawing to strings as opposed to >> going through StringBuffer. >> >> hth >> >> >> >> >It's a surface view so the whole scene must be rendered every frame. >> >I could put it on the background I suppose but it's simple enough to >> >just redraw the text. >> >> >On May 25, 4:10 pm, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote: >> >> Robert Green wrote: >> >> > I said StringBuffer but I meant "Implied" StringBuffer, you know: >> >> >> > canvas.drawText(score + POINTS_LABEL, x, y, paint); >> >> >> Why redraw POINTS_LABEL every time? Can't you rework your scoreboard to >> >> only draw that once? >> >> >> -- >> >> Mark Murphy (a Commons >> >>Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://twitter.com/commonsguy >> >> >> Android App Developer Training:http://commonsware.com/training.html >> >> -- >> jason.software.particle > -- jason.software.particle --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
