Re: An AI question and a UI question

"Jeff Lait" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev i meddelandet
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> > Secondly, what's a good way to do output if I'm using Java?  I'm sort
>
> I don't know Java.  However, in this day of gigahertz machines, it
> really depresses me to hear that ANY approach would be "slow".
>
> > don't really have an idea on how to make it work well.  I'd need the
> > letter masks as well as some way to quickly put them on the screen.  I
> > want to be able to have the output ready in about the time it would
> > take an average computer to write to the screen.  Any place that I can
> > get the masks without having to make them myself?
>
> The average computer now a days doesn't work in a text mode.  Thus, it
> is blitting bitmaps to do all the text you see on your screen.  Thus,
> there is no excuse for Java to not be able to get reasonable
> framerates by blitting your characters as bitmaps to the screen.
>

Agreed. This must be a common misconception that it will be slow to redraw
the entire screen even when using "bulky" GUI components. I can do a full
screen refresh on a cellphone with MIDP 1.0 and get pretty decent framerates
using DrawChar on an offscreen Image and then draw the Image onto the
screen.

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> - Jeff Lait
> (POWDER: http://www.zincland.com/powder)

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