David,
Thanks for the link to the bi-thread article, I'll have to look it up
when I get some spare time. (As if I'll ever...) Looking forwards to
seeing your modifications to the thread/animation code, it sounds good.
Been far too busy lately, so I haven't had the time to work on things
properly, but I've had the chance to do some animations on Win98 now.
>From the results of that, I think an approach such as Richard suggested
is the best one, where you have a base timeslice which is set depending
on the browser/operating system and where you get a coefficient which
says how much the actual timeslice varied from the expected one.
Can you post your results so far concerning Thread/Pathanim/Bi-thread?
Cheers,
Daniel
David Cushman wrote:
>
> Hey Leland,
> I just checked the timed animation example under
> win98 / ns6.0 and it loaded and ran. Possibly you hit
> a glitch coming from my server? You could try it
> again. What operating system are you running under?
>
> To Dan, I am working with the bi-threaded and
> tri-threaded examples. The original article by Mark
> Szlazak has some good examples. In talking with Mark,
> he has re-named the process to bi-thread and so on as
> not to confuse it with the more widely recognized
> multithread. So far, the results of anything more
> than bi-thread are very disappointing and do not play
> back in a uniform manner. With the bi-thread, you can
> experiment with the original animation page I posted,
> getting the timeslice down to around 27ms (select the
> option titled multithread).
>
> Link to Mark's article (page with examples):
> http://www.webreference.com/dhtml/column34/6.html
>
> Link to original timing animation:
> http://www.merlinsworld.net/dynapi_ri_dcexamples/timing01.shtml
>
> To Richard, Yes that does sound interesting, your
> ideas on using the base to create a timed path
> animation. I started tinkering with the concept,
> working on applying it to pathanim. The base
> structure of pathanim makes it a little more difficult
> than the bi-thread modification I did for the timing01
> page. Working on several widgets right now, will get
> back on this shortly. Oh, and as to the "little layer
> that gets clipped...." You missed the more obvious
> mistake, the page title still carries your wipeTo demo
> title <g>. As you know, I have been using your
> example to create the demos so that we can port them
> to your site when they are stable.
>
> I have a add on utility widget for thread that
> replaces the call to set "sleep" for an animation.
> You give it a setting and it selects the closest
> multiple timeslice for the operating system that is
> viewing it and sets the sleep value for the animation
> dependant on the system and browser (defaulting to
> multiples of 55ms, the worst case). It is based on
> the selection code in the timing01 example. This does
> give uniform playback across browser platforms (one of
> my goals achieved). Once I have more platform info
> nailed down, I will post it.
>
> We are still lacking a timeslice minimum for linux
> operating systems and some further information on Mac
> platforms to round out the information we have so far.
> Help!!!!
> It is a very easy test, please see the post about
> testing here:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01965.html
>
> Cheers,
> Dave C. "You Changed What?!?"
>
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