On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: > After sitting with Mark W. for an hour over lunch yesterday I was able to > both understand the role of acceleratedRendering and the best usage of it. > It turns out that the order of when these commands are used is of utmost > importance. I have been rewriting my code and have an instant increase in > responsiveness in my scrolling groups. > > In a nut shell: > 1. on preopenCard - set the acceleratedRendering of this stack to true > (only on cards that ave scrolling or dynamic groups/objects > 2. Immediately before moving an object turn on dynamic or when scrolling a > group turn on scrolling > once moving the scroll or object has already been cached and drawn so > these are no longer necessary. No need to turn these things on and leave > them on because they are not needed and the result is that things will > actually slow down. > 3. Immediately after moving or scrolling an object turn off the scrolling > or dynamic settings > 4. on closeCard - set the acceleratedRendering of this stack to false > (turn it off since it is not needed) > > > This simple approach seems so obvious now and has immediate results. > > The other thing that Ben and Mark showed me was that having large > scrolling groups of object is much much much faster than using visual > effects and switching cards. > > More as I grok this…. > > -- Tom McGrath III > http://lazyriver.on-rev.com > 3mcgr...@comcast.net > > Tom - Thanks for sharing this knowledge nugget! I too have been trying unsuccessfully to understand acceleratedRendering. This is helpful.
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