Re: [Denemo-devel] Speed of Cursor Animation (was Re: Palettes)

[Richard Shann]

On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 18:13 +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
> It
> simply shouldn't be possible for the cursor animation to slow things
> up,
> as you describe since the re-draw requests are queued so that if the
> machine is so busy that by the time the draw happens it is too late
> then
> all that will result is that the steps of the animation will be
> skipped
> (because it looks at the time and decides which step it should draw).
> (It doesn't know that there are steps, just knows what it should draw
> at
> a given number of milliseconds after the start, too late and it should
> just draw the final result). 

I wrote the above from memory, but I have just been checking the code
and find it is quite untrue :(
In fact most of these transitions are 10 steps taken at 20 ms intervals
and the steps will be delayed by other things going on.
Which only leaves the question - what else do you have going on? The top
command might help...

Richard