RE: [flexcoders] What is the best way to draw about 10,000 to 15,000 rectangles?

Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 4:23 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] What is the best way to draw about 10,000 to 15,000 rectangles? > adding all of them to the display list takes so long and is just too much

RE: [flexcoders] What is the best way to draw about 10,000 to 15,000 rectangles?

> adding all of them to the display list takes so long and is just too much What kind of time are you seeing? I was able to add 10,000 UIComponents as children in about 10 seconds. And I was able to add 10,000 Sprites as "raw" children (using rawChildren.addChild()) in about 2 seconds. How fas

Re: [flexcoders] What is the best way to draw about 10,000 to 15,000 rectangles?

Assuming the locations are all in some data structure, i'd say keep that structure and just iterate through each item and draw them on a single canvas using the Graphics class/object. Then register a mouse listener for the entire canvas and calculate which container you clicked on based on the x