On February 12, 2006 at 18:30, Lyndel McGee said...
I am presuming at this pointg in your Settings
on the remote that you have Animation set to 'None'.
No matter how fast your PC does it, page jumps
will ALWAYS be slower on the remote.
As far as the speed goes. The speed at which
a page jump occurs depends on many things. Specifically,
the Number of items on the page affects repaint
speed and I've also found that the number of pages
in the device may also have some effect.
As a recommendation, you should keep the # pages
per device to <=100 and the number of items per
page as small as possible.
As a test....
Ensure that each panel has a button with a delay.
This used to be an issue with legacy prontos.
I always put a 1x1 pixel button with tranparent
image and 0.1s delay somewhere in a panel that
will be used as an intermediate presentation.
One thing I might suggest to improve performance
is to make your sliding window a single image
such that it consumes only 1 item (a single panel).
Then, make all your background items (things
behind the sliding window) as one image which
you can put into a panel. Then, on the page,
you will have 2 panels, one for background and
one for sliding window. Also include the 1x1
pixel button with delay. On these pages, you
have exactly 3 items. In your page jump sequence,
you can simply duplicate this page for the number
of animation frames you want and reposition your
sliding window accordingly.
Once you've done this test, this will be absolutely,
positively the best performance you can get from
the remote. However, please note that you should
consider making your animations such that you
jump 10-15 pixels for each frame. A 1 pixel per
frame sliding window will never give you what
you want as performance will be too slow.
Sorry for all the rambling as I just did a core
dump on ideas in my head. Hope it makes some
sense and others can get some benefit from it.
Hi!
Yes, it absolutely makes sense and I understood perfectly everything you "dumped"! Thanks so far!
Most of this, I already did. In fact, my background is already one single bitmap (png-file). The sliding panel is a grouped bitmap (with 9 png-files in it). I will try to do as you said and generate a single grafic-file.
The only thing I don't know wether I got it, is to put this 1 pixel transparent button anywhere. I'll try it even if I don't see, where this will have an influence....
Can you explain, what will be the difference, if I enable animations in the Pronto setup? Until now, I thought, that this option is something different.
Thanks a lot for all your efforts so far!
(btw: I tested your configuration file in my remote device and the sliding panels did the same thing as in my configuration: they didn't slide at all, but only jump from one position to the next)
