> Just getting back to this, would you recommend upping the framerate on > the application then or just put up with the slow cursors. I'm just > conscious that upping the framerate will up the CPU usage slightly > with Flex but I haven't seen much research into how much difference it > will make.
I'd up the framerate. If you're building a standard Flex app (built largely with standard Flex UI components), then you shouldn't see much of a bump in CPU usage as most the UI doesn't do any per-frame work unless its animating. Plus, if you're putting the results in a web browser, most of them will already be throttling the Flash player, so it shouldn't make your machine unresponsive (Flash's CPU usage is pretty low priority). If I have any animated effects/transitions or a lot of drag-n-drop, I up my Flex's framerate to 100. It won't run that fast under any current platform/browser configuration (50 is about as high as I've seen), but 100 is a nice round number. Others may have a better educated reasoning for using a different number. Troy.
