--- Graham Samuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 04:44:32 -0800 (PST) Jan Schenkel > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Hi Graham, > > > >A few things spring to mind: > >- Is it possible that another object overlaps the > >player ? > >- What's the setting of the 'alwaysBuffer' property > of > >the player and the stack ? > > > >Jan Schenkel. > > Hi Jan > > Thanks for the interest. The alwaysBuffer of the > mainstack, the > substack in question and the player objects are all > set to true. I'm > not sure what you mean by 'overlap', but naturally > as the user drags > the player object it passes across a number of other > objects - > usually rectangular graphics without scripts in > them. The players > never enter each other's space, as it were, although > they are > sometimes asked to play simultaneously (this doesn't > seem to be a > problem in itself). > > Do underlying objects get messages saying the > drag/grab is taking > place? If so, I could try to investigate these. > > So far then, no real answer - but thanks again. > > Graham > --
Hi Graham, Even though buffering eliminates flicker, it takes up cpu-time and memory, so that may actually be slowing the display down, especially in low-memory situations where the OS has to swap memory to hard disk. As for overlapping: what I mean is if one of the rectangles goes straight 'through' a player object ? Because then RunRev has to do extra work: it has to get the frame from QuickTime, and then draw the piece of rectangle over it, and it has to do it every frame it shows. >From what you describe here, you have quite a resource-hungry setup, with player objects that are moving around the screen, more than one playing at the same time. That's a lot of buffering and redrawing. So I think you should really consider Chipp's suggestion regarding animated gifs. After all, the individual frames can be easily extracted from that type of file, unlike movie compression formats, which usually rely on complicated algorithms which only act on the pixels that are different between two frames. Jan Schenkel. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
