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ZakG
help streamlining my code, slightly jerky in draw
Apr 27th, 2010, 11:36pm  
Here is the project I'm working on:

http://www.zakgreene.com/deep

I'm eventually intending to pull in results from the Google suggest bar, using questions leads like "what does," "who is," "why are" etc. What I'm working with now is just a static XML file that I have created. Now, the XML will eventually be composed of 30 random questions pulled from a larger database. So I am making ArrayLists for each question type (who what when etc).

Although not terrible, as the complexity of my code has increased the movement has become slightly jerky. The code is only going to become more complex as I add a second state upon clicking a question, so I wondered if anyone had suggestions on what I could do to help this.

Your help would be greatly appreciated! My Graphic Design BFA degree project hangs in the balance!
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PhiLho 
Re: help streamlining my code, slightly jerky in draw
Reply #1 - Apr 28th, 2010, 1:05am  
I don't find it jerky, even on my old computer...
Beside, sometime Processing animations aren't as smooth as we wish they are, although it happens more with large drawings than with those you show.
Last remark: some sentences are odd, syntactically speaking...
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ZakG
Re: help streamlining my code, slightly jerky in draw
Reply #2 - Apr 28th, 2010, 8:53am  
Consider the sentences as placeholders. I just wanted to make sure there were an evenish number of who, what, when, etc. On my computer sometimes it freezes for a cycle or two. This happens roughly every 4-5 seconds. It's not terrible, but enough that it bothers me, and makes me wonder how http://wefeelfine.org got it so smooth.
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PhiLho 
Re: help streamlining my code, slightly jerky in draw
Reply #3 - Apr 28th, 2010, 9:24am  
Such pause is typical of garbage collector kicking in...
But I don't see much objects created in your draw loop, unless Processing generates them?
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ZakG
Re: help streamlining my code, slightly jerky in draw
Reply #4 - Apr 28th, 2010, 9:32am  
What is "garbage collector"?
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antiplastik
Re: help streamlining my code, slightly jerky in draw
Reply #5 - Apr 28th, 2010, 2:30pm  
it's the built-in mechanism that checks which objects in your program are of no use anymore and could be wiped out of memory. that prevents you from writing myObject = null; when you're done with an object.
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