[wxPython-users] Animation question

[Andrea Gavana]

Hi Luca,

On 4/2/07, Luca Politti wrote:
>    I'm woking for an animation with wxPython. I need to move an image
> and zoom it. I've tried with DCs, using double buffer method to reduce
> the flicking. So I've tested the animation on 2 computers: they have
> almost the same features, (the bigger difference is on the graphical
> board: computer1 mounts geForce, computer2 Ati)but on computer1 the
> animation works slowly, and the process needs the 100% of CPU. Computer2
> takes this animation more easy and needs only 30-35% of CPU and it
> results more fluid and nice to see. I'll need to run this animation on a
> low performance computers...maybe I'm doing something wrong...
>
> Any ideas?

Two or three of them:

1) Try FloatCanvas: wx.lib.floatcanvas
2) Are you using wx.BufferedPaintDC() together with an empty
wx.EVT_ERASE_BACKGROUND?
3) If you post some code, I am sure some DC guru can help you.

Andrea.

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