At 21:01 -0800 03/19/2002, Patrick Mamode wrote:
>I read in the Lingo Dictionary that the use of
>sendAllSprites "may decrease performance".
Relative to what they don't say. The reason is it's not targeted.
>I have a group of sprites that must respond to an
>event. Will I see a decrease in performance if I use
>sendAllSprites rather than setting up a repeat loop to
>individually manipulate each sprite through
>sprite(whichSprite)?
You DEFINITELY want to use sendAllSprites rather than a repeat loop.
sendAllSprites takes more time than sendSprite, but it is orders of
magnitude faster than a repeat cycle.
>When is it more appropriate to use sendAllSprites?
When you have more than one sprite to send stuff too, or if you're
not needing to go by specific sprite numbers.
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