Hello Sandro, Monday, June 25, 2007, 10:45:29 PM, you wrote: >> >After all, a definition is always in memory anyway (in the >> >CharacterDictionary)
What about externally loaded movies ( loadMovie() )? Shouldn't the definition be removed when that movie is unloaded? In that case definitions would still need the GC or be at least ref-counted. SS> Well, this hierarchy could be better handled at the top-level SS> (character_def, swf_character_def, dynamic_character_def). SS> But I'd still like the "render an instance, not a character" more. This would mean duplicating much code or a big redesign. As said, the triangulating render handlers (OpenGL) need to convert the Flash shapes to a simple triangles mesh. This mesh is stored in the character *definition* because it is unrelated to matrix transformations. Moving the mesh data to the *instance* would mean re-calculating the same data for each instance (overkill for non-dynamic shapes). The (yet unused) renderer cache (which is part of the *definition*) could be a solution for this but that's not much different than the current design. For AGG it wouldn't be such a big deal as it accesses the original flash shapes and the source of these shapes could be abstracted. At the other hand it probably will make caching/optimizations more difficult later. In any case, the triangulating code and data is deeply nested with the character definitions, so it's hard to change this. Udo _______________________________________________ Gnash-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnash-dev
