Popout and popups - Feature requests

[panos_k75]

hmmm...i really wonder if the samsung umpcs (q1 or q1b) would be fast enough to cope with this? anyone care to elaborate?

[Dean Roddey]

If you keep them small as they should be, it should do fine. How big are they and how much stuff is in them? You really shouldn't be using slideouts to effectively create overlays or anything like that.

[panos_k75]

they are 480x150 pixels with 5 buttons. I have tried running the interface viewer on different clients with a small but noticable variation in speed.

[Dean Roddey]

How long is it taking? Bring up the task manager and watch the CPU utilization while it's coming out and see how much CPU is being eaten. For me they slide out pretty smoothly and should take just a second to a second and half for a smallish one. Your's is a little large at 480 wide. Does it have an image background or a filled color background?

[panos_k75]

Dean,
you are right, the CPU spikes to 100% when the popout slides in or out. I have a background image (12Kb size).

What are other peoples experience with CPU util and pop-outs?


Panos

[Dean Roddey]

Does the background image have any transparency? One thing I've not do so far is do an optimization such that if the popout doesn't have the transparent background set (which means that even if the background image has any transparency, the template color fill would just show through, and therefore I could just draw the popout once and redraw it at subsequent positions. Currently, I assume the worst case of a transparent background, so I have to grab the background where it's going to end up, and redraw the contents over and over and layer it over that background and then blit that to the screen.

[panos_k75]

I got you. Does anyone else use transparent popouts and if yes what is the speed like? I would imagine that it would be quite slow on clients like the Fujitsu stylistic tablets.

My client runs Centrino 1.3 which I would think it's faster than the CPU in the Samsung Q1/Q1B.

Anyone care to share his/her comments?

[ToyMaster458]

I made a test popup out 150 x 480 with 5 command buttons, no transparent background and it was nice and smooth on the Q1.

[panos_k75]

Thanks Toymaster,
If you make it transparent do you see any difference in performance? How long does it take to roll-out?
Thanks,
Panos

[Wynn]

Ok, I finally went about doing a quick test on this as well. Now, I have the worst of all worlds here because my server is still on a wireless connection (only for another 3 months). So keep that in mind.

I made a 153x292 image with translucency and 5 buttons along with a static text widget.

The performance was definately slower than my main work machine (2.4ghz with 1gig of ram), but I wouldn't describe it as distracting or too slow. In general, I'm not a huge fan of pop-outs and will be mainly using popups which run just fine on the Q1 (used the same exact template as the pop-out).

My very informal stop watch (counting 1-1000, 2-1000, etc.; I never really bought into the mississippi system for counting), counted the main work machine to take a 3 count to slide in and it took a 4 count on the Q1.