On Apr 11, 2013, at 6:31 PM, Michael Andersen <mich...@steelcode.com> wrote:

> Hi list,
> 
> I have a loading throbber in my application that is completely killing the 
> performance. If it is rotating then the application does not repaint while it 
> is being dragged and if more than two or three copies of the application are 
> running then it starts lagging Unity. I'm on Ubuntu 12.04 with Qt 5.0.1 
> 64-bit. I was going to wait until 5.2 was out and check again, but it's 
> taking a little longer than I expected for a stable version to be released.

Is vsync enabled in your driver? Sounds like it might not be. If not, then Qt 
Quick 2.0 will render at 100% cpu rendering maybe many thousands of frames per 
second, even though you only see 60 of them.

cheers,
Gunnar

> 
> Here is a simple reproducer of the problem, I create a QtQuick2 application 
> in Qt Creator 2.7. I adjust the QML to look like this:
> 
> import QtQuick 2.0
> 
> Rectangle {
>     width: 400
>     height: 400
>     Rectangle {
>         id: redsquare
>         color: "red"
>         width: 50
>         height: 50
>         x: 50
>         y: 50
>     }
>     RotationAnimation {
>         loops: Animation.Infinite
>         target: redsquare
>         properties: "rotation"
>         from: 0
>         to: 360
>         duration: 300*5
>         direction: RotationAnimation.Clockwise
>         running: true
>     }
> }
> 
> My main.cpp is the default, but that looks like this:
> 
> #include <QtGui/QGuiApplication>
> #include "qtquick2applicationviewer.h"
> 
> int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> {
>     QGuiApplication app(argc, argv);
> 
>     QtQuick2ApplicationViewer viewer;
>     viewer.setMainQmlFile(QStringLiteral("qml/SimpleRotator/main.qml"));
>     viewer.showExpanded();
> 
>     return app.exec();
> }
> 
> I am new to Qt, so perhaps I am doing something wrong with my animation, but 
> I have tried a couple other methods of animating and they all lag equally 
> badly. The PC I develop on is quite a monster, so if it is lagging on this, I 
> hate to think what it's going to do on my clients' laptops.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas? 
> 
> Regards
> Michael
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