[javascript-dev] Re: Re: Re: jsui was a mistake.

Quote: jkc wrote on Fri, 05 October 2007 10:48
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> Btw, I don't think it should be much slower than the LCD you 
> are using if you set fsaa to zero

I also investigated using JSUI for my UI, largely to make use of the better antialiased text and easy scaling/resizing. My display requirements (and thus my internal drawing overhead) are actually very simple.

What killed the deal for me seems to be the overhead involved in passing messages from Max into JSUI. I'm dealing with a fairly dense stream of input messages in some situations, and JSUI required an order of magnitude more CPU time than LCD for the same task when I prototyped using both. Yes, FSAA was off.

If anything could be done about that overhead, I'd certainly look at JSUI again. Alternately, an OpenGL-based native version of LCD that accepts the equivalent OpenGL commands as Max messages would be most welcome, and possibly more future-proof(?). In Max, not Jitter. But maybe that's not possible?