On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 12:04:15PM +1000, Bluebie, Jenna wrote: > When you run code in an 'animate' loop, does the animate loop cache all the > updates until the code block finishes and then draw them to the screen, or > progressively draw then straight to the display irrespective of screen > refreshes and the likes? If not, could I simulate it by drawing to an > ImageBlock or something like that instead? Mainly I'll just be layering > images on top of each other rapidly, and maybe drawing some text and simple > vectors.
Updates aren't batched together yet, no. This is in my plans for the July 31st release. Depending on the number of objects you're animating, you may try using a `clear` block rathen than a lot of `move`s. Since images are cached in memory anyway. > Can I play with Shoes in IRB or something like it? samples/expert-irb.rb is the only IRB wrapper so far. _why
