On 11/12/2009, at 8:59 PM, Alastair Houghton wrote: > Anyway, the thing to do is to draw what you want, and then *if* it's going > too slowly there are various things you can do to speed it up (like caching > any expensive rendering in an NSImage, doing reduced or simplified rendering > during live resize and so on).
It's also worth considering looking at Core Animation Layers, depending on what you're drawing. I have a custom view with several objects that are expensive to draw, and what I am now doing is drawing them into CALayers. Because these are cached to the GPU, there is virtually no cost to dragging the objects around as the only time they need to be redrawn is when the content of the objects changes. Since my objects are overlaid on a large image background (at least 1000 x 1000), drawing was very expensive before I did this as the image needed to be redrawn any time the view content changed. With CALayers it is only drawn once. -- Rob Keniger _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
