[racket-dev] try the GRacket2 branch

I'll test it this evening when I am back home.

The animated-canvas class actually keeps two bitmaps - one for painting from
and one for drawing to. The swap-bitmaps methods swaps those and repaints
the canvas. I'm not sure which of those the new canvas backing store would
replace.

Doug

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:

> At Sun, 31 Oct 2010 16:29:08 -0600, Doug Williams wrote:
> > The animated-canvas library that I have on PLaneT has two examples. The
> > histogram-test.rkt example works as expected. The lines.rkt example draws
> a
> > few lines and then locks up. Adding a (yield) after (send canvas
> > swap-bitmaps) in line 55 gets it to run - sort of. The animation is
> fairly
> > smooth for 10 sets of lines, but is really strange at 50 (for example) -
> > with this machine on the old GRacket it would be smooth at 100. And, my
> stop
> > button implementation doesn't work will - it just sets a global and the
> > graphics routines exit when they see it set - it eventually stops, but
> may
> > require 10 to 15 seconds or so. I suspect that the animated-canvas
> > functionality for double-buffering may not be needed anymore and the
> 'flush'
> > operations are what I need to look at.
> >
> > The interactions.ss file in the simulation package on PLaneT also
> required a
> > (yield) after line 107 to give the animation effect - there is no double
> > buffering or anything here. But, with that added, it seems to run fine.
>
> I've pushed changes to make the canvas refresh without `yield'. Can you
> check with the latest version?
>
>
> You're right that double-buffering usually should not be needed
> anymore, since all canvases now have a backing buffer. As an example,
> text editors (like the ones in DrRacket) used to have their own backing
> buffer, and they don't anymore.
>
> There are cases where you need precise control over the timing of
> flushes. The new `suspend-flush' and `resume-flush' methods on `dc<%>'
> give you extra control over the timing of flushes, and often that extra
> control is enough. (Text editors use those methods to group a refresh
> of the editor.) Since `suspend-flush' doesn't absolutely prevent
> flushes, however, an extra backing buffer would be needed if it's
> important to never show an intermediate drawing state.
>
> Finally, you might still want an explicit backing buffer to stage a
> complex drawing so that it can be moved onscreen quickly. Slideshow,
> for example, still draws a next slide offscreen (when it is otherwise
> idle) so that it can display the slide instantly when you advance the
> show.
>
>
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