Thanks for the info. No VMWare going on with this one. 

Regrettably the app is not mine to share, it's a clients. Taking screen shots 
is a liberty. 

It is visible on multiple different windows machines though. 


On 02/06/2013, at 6:15 PM, Tom Eugelink <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> I had a similar problem where my calendar popup would flicker when moving the 
> mouse. This was also only reproducible on my system alone. Turns out the fact 
> that I'm using VMWare to separate all the different projects I work on was 
> the cause; somewhere half consciously I've clicked on a VMWare setting called 
> "accelerate 3D graphics" and that didn't quite work as expected.
> 
> One of the things you can do is let other people run your app and see when 
> the stutter occurs; maybe there is a common denominator. I'm willing to test, 
> and creating a UI only version should not be that hard.
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
> On 2013-06-02 07:36, Daniel Zwolenski wrote:
>> Here is another one I can't reproduce in a constrained example.
>> http://www.screencast.com/t/ufJsZhiLhNJH
>> 
>> This is a real world app that runs on a tablet (Windows). I tried to give
>> this app a bit of an "iPad style", with animations to transition between
>> screens, etc (this was built a year or two ago). Many of the animations '
>> perform poorly' and are either slow or jumpy, etc, but it's hard to capture
>> on video and hard to replicate in simple examples.
>> 
>> In this video you can see a 'stutter' as the animation goes from left to
>> right and back again. The stutter is right at the end just before the
>> transition finishes. Sometimes it's pretty much perfect but 70% of the time
>> it either overshoots and re-adjusts or just suddenly jumps to the end point
>> before it's finished the smooth animation. At least that's the visual
>> effect as far as I can tell.
>> 
>> This (and many of the problems) could very well be an issue with the actual
>> code on my end and not true JFX issues. I've tried to narrow down further
>> but it is very time consuming to do this and it would help to know if there
>> were any rough guesses at what might be causing this problem.
>> 
>> Is it the fact that everything is so highly styled, or just the number of
>> components, is it something like I shouldn't do any actual real work in an
>> 'on finished' method, etc? If there are any possible leads then I can try
>> and put together a small sample but at the moment I'm firing randomly.
>> 
>> As far as the code goes, it's a fairly standard parallel transition
>> containing two translate transitions. A very simple example of the sort of
>> logic used can be seen here:
>> https://code.google.com/p/zenjava-playtime/source/browse/trunk/javafx-performance/animate1/src/main/java/com/zenjava/jfx/performance/animate1/SwipeApp.java
>> 
>> But this one animates consistently smooth.
> 
> 

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