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pillowhead
drawing text without looping
Nov 10th, 2005, 7:18am  
Is there a way to do a one time loop in Processing to display text without screwing up the main draw loop?

I have a good amount of text I want to display from a for loop, and since the background is being redrawn, it only displays in the draw loop.

This seems like a huge waste of processor time, since it is redrawing the lines over and over.

I'm just using it as an aesthetic background.
Its 50 lines of sourcecode with almost no line spacing.

So any suggestions?

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beachmeat
Re: drawing text without looping
Reply #1 - Nov 10th, 2005, 10:52am  
I think theres no other way of redrawing it in case you have a changing background.
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mark hill
Re: drawing text without looping
Reply #2 - Nov 10th, 2005, 11:19am  
I'm not sure I fully understand what you mean.

Are you using the for loop to write text out to the screen, but don't want to do this every frame? Where you could write it once and copy it to a PImage that could then be used as a background(title); or something like that?

Sorry if I'm misunderstanding you.
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pillowhead
Re: drawing text without looping
Reply #3 - Nov 10th, 2005, 7:37pm  
Ya basically I have a block of text that is being parsed from a text file.
I want it to draw the text, but since I'm not animating it I would like it not to redraw.

This works if I put the text() in the setup, but then since there IS motion in the draw loop, I have to redraw the background color there..or it looks funky.

Just looking for a way I guess to have a for loop in the draw loop that only runs the one time, emulating it being in the setup()
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mark hill
Re: drawing text without looping
Reply #4 - Nov 10th, 2005, 9:55pm  

Sounds like you can do everything in the setup() i.e parse the file and write it to the screen and then just make a copy of it to another PImage called myBackground.

You can then just have a background(myBackground); in the draw() method, which will set the background to whatever was written there in the setup() and as you have motion in the loop anyway, my guess is that your clearing it in some way.

I seem to remember something weird happening with background(image) type stuff, so if it doesn't work just do a pixels[i] = mybackground.pixels[i] loop to copy it in.
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