API Review RT:17407 Canvas Node

[Richard Bair]

Nah, the way to do this is with a single Path node. Just do a series of line-to and move-to. No need to use either canvas or rectangles.

Richard

On Apr 24, 2012, at 8:45 AM, Pedro Duque Vieira wrote:

>> 
>> Regardless of how the implementation discussion ends up, the driving
>> question should be what do developers expect a 2D Canvas to do? I think of
>> things like photoshop, Illustrator, 8 bit arcade games, animations, 2D CAD
>> apps, Flow chart designers and the like.
> 
> 
> Actually there is another scenario which might be common to several types
> of apps.
> An example: imagine your app has a background like a grid and the grid
> spacing might change dynamically. If you create this grid right now you
> might have to instantiate thousands of rectangle nodes (each rectangle
> being a grid square) which will degrade performance severely and also
> memory consumption.
> But if you use something like a Canvas node as the background grid,
> everything will be much better.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> Pedro Duque Vieira