I just did some trace viewing of a game I'm making and noticed that the setting of Rect's took about 10% of the total rendering time. This even if Rects are reused and not newly instantiated.

Since there is no drawBitmap using only primitives for src->dst blitting is there any other way of drawing without having to set a lot of rectangle bounds each time?

The only way I can think of is faster is to split up the source Image into the Tiles I'm using and to draw them with
drawBitmap( Bitmap, int, int, Paint ).

Any other ideas ??

Canvas.drawBitmap(bmp, matrix, paint) Don't know if that's what you want. This should let you allow to have the same result, but you should reach your goal in a totally different manner.

Don't know if that's what you want

Not really (I think)!

The matrix also requires updates before passing to drawBitmap.
My situation is I draw from different source offsets to different destination offsets in a loop and must therefore update either the Matrix or the Rects. This takes usless CPU time I think.

There should be a drawBitmap( Bitmap, int, int, int, int, int, int, int, int, Paint ) method in my opinion.

Never the less I shall do benchmarking on cropping the source Image into smaller and draw using the drawBitmap( Bitmap, int, int, Paint ) instead.

Is the 'slowness' going to be a real problem? Other wise you probably have to do the drawing in OpenGL.

Is the 'slowness' going to be a real problem?

Yes, it's a game. Every millisecond counts...

Other wise you probably have to do the drawing in OpenGL.

Perhaps, but it's a path I haven't gone before. Maybe time to learn something new!

Jompe71 wrote:

Is the 'slowness' going to be a real problem?

Yes, it's a game. Every millisecond counts...

Hehe, yeah very true, but as the G1 has a refresh rate of 50hz, you should aim at having 50 fps, if it's more, then you have cpu time left for your game!

Jompe71 wrote:

Other wise you probably have to do the drawing in OpenGL.

Perhaps, but it's a path I haven't gone before. Maybe time to learn something new!

Same for me, never used OpenGL in Java or OpenGL ES. But we are in ICT, so learning new things is stuff we do .

Use clipping with your draw bitmap call. Simply clip to the frame you want to display and draw the image

Woohoo (Homer style..)!!

Using the clipRect with the option Region.Op.REPLACE I've got the feature I was looking for.
This should save some rendering time now what the pointless setting of Rects can be removed.

It also makes the game common rendering methods more "compatible", i.e. easier to port to J2ME (sorry for mentioning that word in this forum ) later on.

...thx !!