<snip> The issue probably isn't imaging Lingo so much, as lack of proper optimisation. <snip>
Thanks Robert. I know that my unoptimised code plays a major role in the performance drop. But before I spend another week rewriting everything from scratch (the current code can pass of as spaghetti in the eyes of the most discerning gourmet :-P ), I thought I'd get a get a confirmation on whether imaging really is much faster than sprites. <snip> As for your second issue, of detecting click positions, this should actually be an area where you can improve on performance, compared with sprites. Since many of the sprites will be arranged in a uniform grid, you can use a simple caclulation to determine which one the mouse is over. This saves doing a bounds check on every sprite, which for a large number of sprites is quite time consuming (assuming no other optimisations are used, although Director probably does optimise this quite a bit anyway). <snip> Trapping interactions such as rollovers will be easier in sprites with the mouseEnter and mouseLeave handlers. I'll need to do a continuous checking for that with imaging lingo. I'm a little less keen on using sprites since a cell can contain any number of objects. It's much easier to paste them all into a single image than having a sprite for each object. I was also considering a hybrid solution, using imaging and sprites. Each cell object has its own sprite and image object. I can attach behaviors to the sprite and let a global appearance manager retrieve the image of each cell object to paste onto a common bitmap member or the stage. The canvas bitmap can be placed in the topmost channel without any behaviors attached. So I don't waste cycles checking for interactivity, while getting fast drawing routines. Pranav Negandhi Software Engineering Learnet India Limited, Mumbai. Phone: 91-22-859 8042 Ext: 316 http://www.learnetindia.com [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
