On Jul 9, 2008, at 2:08 PM, Rick Mann wrote:
On Jul 9, 2008, at 12:59:33, David Duncan wrote:
Given what it sounds like your content is, I might consider putting
the whole canvas on a single or small set of tiled layers (they can
be unbounded in size).
Oh. I had thought making each individual part its own CALayer was
most appropriate. I intend for each part to change its appearance to
reflect selection, hover, etc, as well as be draggable, rotatable,
etc. Animating these these changes seems to dictate making each its
own layer.
Now, I'm not really sure how to animate something I'm drawing
directly (for example, when you're hovering over a part, I would
like it's "significant contour" to pulsate, or something like that).
Either method should work, but you may want to consider resource usage
in both as well. Its certainly plausible to logically pull something
out of its parent layer (i.e. redraw it into another layer) when
selected, then when deselected burn it into the model so its drawn on
its parent layer again.
But its mostly an implementation detail. I would probably go with what
works first, then if you find a performance issue to consider a change
then. As always, premature optimization is to be avoided.
--
David Duncan
Apple DTS Animation and Printing
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