Steven Sacks wrote: > Don't confuse the word "rendered" with the word "processed". Rendering is > the act of drawing pixels on the stage. Invisible DisplayObjects are not > rendered (though alpha 0 ones are) during the render phase, but they are > processed. > > If you have 1000 invisible sprites on the stage that aren't running code, > Flash still has to keep them in memory and process them in the display > stack, it just doesn't have to render them.
Ok, I'm a little confused here. The way I understand it is that sprites with any alpha, even 0, will be rendered. Sprites with _visible == false are not rendered. Correct so far? As far as processing (aside from rendering), any jpg or other compressed format has to be processed--it has to be decompressed before it can be rendered. Is an invisible (_visible == false) sprite decompressed? Or is the Flash engine smart enough to look at the _visible flag, and skip the decompression? You could have a movie clip sprite with a dozen jpegs in it, or more. I hope that Flash doesn't decompress them all if the movie clip is not visible. I'm not quite sure what's going on under the hood there. Cordially, Kerry Thompson _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
