Re: Snappy GUI response

On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 01:58:00PM -0700, David Jeske wrote:
| 
|          ... The kits handed to developers need to "do the right
| thing" in most scenerios without them understanding more than some
| simple examples at the app-level.

If this is so, then experience in the 3D world suggests that the
toolkits need to work at a higher level than seems common in the 2D
world.  At the very least, the toolkit needs a "scene" description
that's complete enough for it to make use of any partial or full backing
store, cull the set of primitives so that a minimal set is rendered,
reorder rendering to take advantage of spatial and attribute coherency,
etc.  A worthy project, but not an easy one -- it would be somewhat
larger than a first-class game engine.

Allen