Re: [gl4java-usergroup] animation

[Sven G. <sgo...@ja...>]

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On Thursday 20 December 2001 17:22, Martin Geisse wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to write a typical animation app, i.e. the graphics should
> re-rendered 'all the time' (20+ times per second). Is it then possible to
> ignore AWT redraw events and redraw the graphics not in the display()
> method which is called by the AWT thread, but instead redraw them from the
> main thread?
>
> It looked to me like GLAnimCanvas does exactly this internally, but I was
> not sure. 

You can be sure, GLAnimCanvas is the best thing you can use today ;-)

Have a look at the demo "gears.java" no more to explain ..

> Anyway, if this is possible, should I use a GLCanvas or
> GLAnimCanvas for it? Or would I duplicate most of GL*Canvas by that and had
> better set up everything manually?

nope, see above, look at the demo gears.java !

>
> BTW, nice work!

thx

sven
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