hehe, blipping. Yeah, oops. Alright, well if it's a case by case basis then I of course will experiment. It just seems that blitting method takes quite a bit of programming just for an experiment.
Thanks for the response, Trey Matt Chotin wrote: > I think you mean blitting, not blipping. In my limited graphics > experience decision-making on whether you should double-buffer is still > case-by-case. How many of your objects are changing at once? Even > though it's only a few, are all of them changing? If so some of the > caching may not be worth it, redrawing each time will be more efficient. > If they aren't changing (or only one is) you can sometimes take > advantage of the bitmap caching for the ones that aren't changing and > turn it off for the ones that are. You'll just need to experiment... > > Matt > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Trey Long > Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 11:49 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [flexcoders] Bitmaps and Blipping > > I have been reading lately about double buffering, bitmap blipping and > other techniques to take advantage of Flash's new exposure of bitmap > APIs. All of the examples I have read so far involve many objects that > don't change a lot and combining them into a single large bitmap. My > question to those of you that know anything on these topics is as > follows: > > Is this technique also appropriate for a only few objects that scale and > > transform in size, color, blend modes and alpha? > > -trey > > > -- > Flexcoders Mailing List > FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt > Search Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > -- > Flexcoders Mailing List > FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt > Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
