[Sugar-devel] slow animation performance when moving the mouse

I have a simple performance question related to animation based on mouse movement in an activity. When you move the mouse, a colored rectangle follows the mouse around. When you click with the mouse, we change the way in which we get the mouse coordinates to position the colored rectangle (and

Re: [Sugar-devel] slow animation performance when moving the mouse

I've not looked at your video or source, but there is a substantial difference in context switching between a call to get_pointer versus using motion_notify_event. get_pointer should be one round trip to the X server. The application will only execute when it wants to. motion_notify_event is a