Hello,
Gary Jaffe wrote:
I wrote a pygtk application that displays ascii letters and spaces
arranged as 70 columns by 20 rows. Each letter and its background color
represents a potential appointment spot in a doctor's office. The user
can click on any of the letters to either make or view an appointment.
This is working, but is too slow. It takes about a second to redraw the
letters, even when using pyrex or psyco.
Do you redraw everything each time, or do you use rectangles to mark which
parts should be redrawn?
I implemented this by using an EventBox() for each letter (to catch the
clicks) and then added a label to each EventBox() to display the letter
with its background color. I'm considering using a TextView() instead
to display the letters and managing the letters with pango.
Is this likely to be faster, or is there some other way of implementing
this that would be faster?
Would a single large bitmap with the letters be faster?
(a simple test would be to create an arbitrary bitmap with the right size, and
see how fast that is blitted to the screen).
Another option may be to have a set of bitmaps (one for each letter for
example), and a canvas on which you blit the right bitmap at the right place.
This may have no effect, depending on what pango does with caching.
Albert
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