Re: Another example of the screen refresh problem on the Mac?

2011-10-12 Thread Bob Sneidar
Ooooh... a train track builder! Bob On Oct 11, 2011, at 11:01 AM, James Hurley wrote: Colin, I was never able to get 9 pool balls to move smoothly. It works but not smoothly. Jim Hurley Colin Holgate wrote: I should update my first Rev stack sometime:

Re: Another example of the screen refresh problem on the Mac?

2011-10-11 Thread James Hurley
Colin, Thanks for this. Very informative. I tried, using Brnd's MoveTest utility and the Move command is markedly smoother at a syncRate of 6 over that at 17. I need to do some experimentation to test 5.0. I'm hoping that RR educates us on how best to take advantage of the improvements in

Re: Another example of the screen refresh problem on the Mac?

2011-10-11 Thread Colin Holgate
I see that too, and even setting it to 1 seems better than setting it to 6. It could be that on desktop it still has to wait for the next screen update. The hope for iOS would be that iphoneSetRedrawInterval = 1 will give perfect redraw sync. On Oct 11, 2011, at 10:50 AM, James Hurley wrote:

Re: Another example of the screen refresh problem on the Mac?

2011-10-11 Thread Colin Holgate
I should update my first Rev stack sometime: http://xfiles.funnygarbage.com/~colinholgate/rev/testtrack.html see if I can get dozens of cars driving around. On Oct 11, 2011, at 12:52 PM, James Hurley wrote: Frustration with animation on the Mac, I guess.)

Re: Another example of the screen refresh problem on the Mac?

2011-10-11 Thread James Hurley
Colin, I was never able to get 9 pool balls to move smoothly. It works but not smoothly. Jim Hurley Colin Holgate wrote: I should update my first Rev stack sometime: http://xfiles.funnygarbage.com/~colinholgate/rev/testtrack.html see if I can get dozens of cars driving around. On

Re: Another example of the screen refresh problem on the Mac?

2011-10-10 Thread James Hurley
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Re: Another example of the screen refresh problem on the Mac?

2011-10-10 Thread Colin Holgate
Did you read my message yet? On Oct 11, 2011, at 12:29 AM, James Hurley wrote: ...or there is no visible change on the screen--only the final location is seen. And for reasons that I do not understand, setting the syncRate to 6 (Brnd's suggestion) improves the smoothness of the motion.