Canvas is, essentially, a "draw pixels" mechanism. We have to bundle
the requests into a command stream due to threading issues, but when the
requests get to the render thread then they get turned into pixels so
the command stream is a temporary intermediary. Some of the hw J2D
pipelines also have a temporary command stream due to platform threading
issues as well. It all depends on which pipeline you use and on which
platform in the case of J2D. FX simply normalized the threading on all
pipelines/platforms so that we have a separate UI and render thread in
all cases, but that concept is not foreign to J2D either.
I'm fairly certain that the lack of simple rectangular clipping is
probably the biggest cause of your performance problems. We do AA on
everything in FX, though, whereas rendering to a BufferedImage by
default will be non-AA unless you requested AA using the graphics hints.
But on the up-side, we hw accelerate just about every operation in FX
so it should be on par with performance there, modulo the lack of
rectangular clipping...
...jim
On 5/23/14 5:46 PM, Tom Schindl wrote:
Hi,
As an experiment I've now written a SWT-GC implementation using a
BufferedImage & Graphics2D and transfering the pixels over to JavaFX and
the performance is as it is with native SWT.
I always thought Canvas works similar to Image and one only draws pixels
- looks like that is not the case, having a dep in my application
java.awt is not what I'm aiming at but without acceptable performance in
conjunction with clipping it looks like i have to go this route :-(
Tom
On 23.05.14 23:57, Tom Schindl wrote:
In the current usecase it is a rect all time but that's just in this special
use case.
I guess that rect clipping is the most common one so having an optimization for
rects and a slow path for none rects might help.
Tom
Von meinem iPhone gesendet
Am 23.05.2014 um 23:35 schrieb Jim Graham <james.gra...@oracle.com>:
Are you clipping to an arbitrary path in all cases or just a rectangle?
Unfortunately we only offer the arbitrary clip-to-current-path method that
isn't optimized for basic rectangular clipping and it implements soft clipping.
There is an outstanding tweak that we added faster clipping support for WebNode and we
need to start using it for Node.setClipNode(non-rectangle) and Canvas, but we haven't
implemented that yet. (https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-30107) It basically is a
direct "render this texture through that other texture as a clip" operation
instead of the current code that runs it through some Blend effect filters. It would
definitely improve your run times, but I'm not sure how much.
Even more savings could be had for rectangular clips if we provided some way to
communicate them to the GC...
...jim
On 5/23/14 11:47 AM, Tom Schindl wrote:
Hi,
Maybe as some of you might know I've been working since sometime on SWT
on JavaFX and to implement direct drawing operations we use JavaFX-Canvas.
I've today tried to run a heavy direct drawing grid implementation and
it performed very bad because it makes heavy use of clipping.
For a grid I've counted ~1500 clipping operations the library works
something like this:
boolean activeClip;
Canvas canvas = new Canvas();
public void setClipping(PathIterator pathIterator) {
GraphicsContext gc = canvas.getGraphicsContext2D();
if(activeClip) {
gc.restore();
activeClip= false;
}
if( pathIterator == null ) {
return;
}
activeClip = true;
float coords[] = new float[6];
gc.save();
gc.beginPath();
float x = 0;
float y = 0;
gc.moveTo(0, 0);
while( ! pathIterator.isDone() ) {
switch (pathIterator.currentSegment(coords)) {
case PathIterator.SEG_CLOSE:
gc.lineTo(x, y);
break;
case PathIterator.SEG_CUBICTO:
gc.bezierCurveTo(coords[0], coords[1], coords[2], coords[3],
coords[4], coords[5]);
break;
case PathIterator.SEG_LINETO:
gc.lineTo(coords[0], coords[1]);
break;
case PathIterator.SEG_MOVETO:
gc.moveTo(coords[0], coords[1]);
x = coords[0];
y = coords[1];
break;
case PathIterator.SEG_QUADTO:
gc.quadraticCurveTo(coords[0], coords[1], coords[2], coords[3]);
break;
default:
break;
}
pathIterator.next();
}
gc.clip();
gc.closePath();
}
Am I doing something ultimately wrong, totally wrong? Has anyone an idea
how I would work around the problem?
Tom
