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NMcCoy
Processing applet becomes unresponsive to input
Feb 16th, 2010, 11:04pm  
I'm making games in Processing, and they run fine normally, but when viewing them as an applet in Firefox I get occasional ~1-second "hiccups" where the game continues to run, but stops responding to input (apparently buffering/queueing button presses during that time, as my shooter game will fire a rapid stream of bullets once it starts responding again). Google Chrome on a Macbook doesn't have this problem - is this a known issue with Processing or Firefox, and is there any fix? It's very disruptive to gameplay.
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ben_hem
Re: Processing applet becomes unresponsive to input
Reply #1 - Feb 16th, 2010, 11:11pm  
Seems hard to say without more data, maybe the Java console will have some answers  It sounds like it might be a garbage collection issue, but ~1 second is a long pause for garbage collection.  In any case it will help you avoid all timing discrepancies by separating your update and render logic:

http://processing.org/discourse/yabb2/num_1254601139.html#2
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