View.Update 'Lag' issues

[Frost35]

I'm trying to make the animations smooth, and to stop the flickering, but when I add in the View.Update, it causes everything to go slower. Am I doing something wrong? :S

Thanks.

[[Gandalf]]

From a 10 second glance (don't have Turing installed here), it doesn't look like it. You should note that View.Update causes your program to slow down no matter what, there's no getting around it.

Also, something you should consider is that you don't need to have your procedures near the end of your program, using the forward keyword. Just put them near the beginning, as is common practice and as is convenient.

[codemage]

I don't find it slow at all - are you on an older system?

Oh - looks fantastic, by the way!

[Frost35]

ya... I just ran it on another comp, and its working fine. how... odd

this comp has a P4 2.4, and 256MB of ram (I think).

My comp at home has 3.0 P4, and 768 MB of ram. So its very odd. I guess I have to clean my comp again Razz

I have 2 copies of it, so when this gets marked Ill make sure to put both in.. just incase.

Could it be that my turing version at home is 4.0.3, and this one is 4.0.5 ?

very weird, because I suspect this comp (school comp) to have more spyware and garbage on it...

btw, I was using the forward procedures so I could sort all my procedures properly and clean my code up (it was 650 lines, so I did pretty good). Took your advice and removed the forwards.

Thx guys.

[neufelni]

Great program. It is so much better than the paint program that I once made.

[Andy]

a copule of things

make the drawline function previewable

your drawfill isnt doing what it's supposed to go
http://www.compsci.ca/v2/viewtopic.php?t=8001&highlight=drawfill

the spraypaint is supposed to be a circle
http://www.compsci.ca/v2/viewtopic.php?t=3036

and yoru pencil program is supposed to draw continuous lines... i'll let you figure that one out yourself

[TokenHerbz]

sooooooooooo slowwwwwwwwww

[Clayton]

something you could look into, is View.UpdateArea, this will allow you to update the parts of the screen that something is happening

code:

var x, y : int:=0 loop     cls     Draw.FillBox (x, y, x + 10, y + 10, black)     View.UpdateArea (x - 2, y - 2, x + 12, y + 12)     delay (20)     x += 1     y += 1 end loop

what this does move the box im drawing, and updates the screen around it, making the program run much faster, try it and see if that speeds it up (it should!)

[Frost35]

Thx SuperFreak82. Yeah I saw something on the earlier, but as it stands I can't implement that yet, because at my house I'm only running 4.0.3, have to get the newer version first.