config the default screen refresh

[reven]

wasnt sure if this should be placed under the wishlist or under this, anyway, im trying to animate a scrolling textbox, that scrolls horizontally. the problem is that the screen is only really drawn once every second or so, if i leave it moving at a low number of pixels, it looks fine, but way to slow, increase the number of pixels, and it jumps, i tried using a thread and keep calling "ForceRepaint" but too many things can go wrong there, and well the gbpvr.exe.log file gets a line printed to it, so if i make it refresh 5 times a second, and someone leaves it in the infoscreen for a while, the log file can become quite large.

so my suggestion/wish make it configurable, how many times a second the screen is redrawn. so when the use enters the infoscreen
pluginHelper.RefreshInterval = 200 (ie how many ms between each repaint, if using mvp this should always be ignored).
and when the user exits
pluginHelper.RefreshInterval = 1000

this will still call the "needsRefreshing" method just at a faster interval. any chance this is possible sub?

[sub]

You could always return true for the needsMoreRendering argument of render().

Be warned, animation doesnt work well with the MVP.

[reven]

yeah i do return true on needsmorerendering, but thats only called about once every second, i want the ability to alter the time interval that the needsmorerendering method is called. so needsmorerendering is called about every 200ms.

im not to worried about poor animation on the MVP, why should the rest suffer because of the mvp, it would still work, just not look as good.

[sub]

I mean the argument to render().

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If this returns true, then render() is called again.

You dont need to make anyone suffer.

[reven]

ok yeah its 6am, i havent gone to sleep yet, misread the needsmorerendering method thingy.

so if i set the out bool for render to true, will it just automatically recall the method?

[sub]

yes

[reven]

cool, thanks sub.

[jasonf]

What are the implications behind the scenes? I always thought that we should use that feature sparingly, if at all because of resource issues.

[sub]

I just dont advise people use it because the MVP doesnt like it. Because of this, I dont use it myself, mean I'm not that familiar with the issues you may encounter.

[reven]

is there anyway to detect if a user is using a mvp from one of the gbpvr methods ?

so if the user is using a mvp, ill turn this feature off.