>My guess is that ideally the 5 bitmaps will be swapped on the
>offscreen region in about a second, so I wonder if that is slow enough to
>fetch them from a resource and then draw to the offscreen region, and then
>dump that to the screen. I guess the question here is what I should
>sacrifice: m
> >I do something similar for an animated throbber in my VChat program, but I
> >actually put all the animations into one bitmap which I cache in an
> >offscreen window. Then, changing the animation frame just involves using a
> >different y offset in my WinCopyRectangle call. Instead of a 10x10
At 09:38 PM 2/8/01 -0600, you wrote:
>I do something similar for an animated throbber in my VChat program, but I
>actually put all the animations into one bitmap which I cache in an
>offscreen window. Then, changing the animation frame just involves using a
>different y offset in my WinCopyRectan
At 05:48 PM 2/8/01 -0800, you wrote:
>
Hello Steve!
>That should work fine. Depending on the # of changes per second and
>the size of the bitmaps, you might even be able to fetch them
>individually, each time you want to draw them, from a bitmap resource
>and not even keep anything aro
"Steve Mann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> >I would like to do a cyclical animation on the Palm screen. To do that,
I
> >was thinking on loading the different bitmaps that make up the cycle and
> >store their MemHandles in a structure array (I also want to
>I would like to do a cyclical animation on the Palm screen. To do that, I
>was thinking on loading the different bitmaps that make up the cycle and
>store their MemHandles in a structure array (I also want to record their
>insertion point).
That should work fine. Depending on the # of changes p
Ok, this should be a rather easy question. Probably even stupid because
it is very obvious (to everybody but me), but here it is:
I would like to do a cyclical animation on the Palm screen. To do that, I
was thinking on loading the different bitmaps that make up the cycle and
store thei
