High Speed Graphics

[David Pendrey]

Greetings,
I am writing an application which will need to move around 50 bitmaps
on the form at a speed high enough that it appears smooth. I am currently
using some custom controls to contain the bitmap and the logic for the
movement in the same location and have have a loop which updates all bitmaps
each 50ms (20fps). Unfortunatly the time taken to render this is too great
and my application does not function correctly. The solution does not need
ot be confined to a custom control but does need to be fast and can be
complicated. The bitmaps are small (about 30 pixels square) and there are
only 8 different bitmaps to display in multiple locations. Thanks for the
advice people

[Steve C. Orr [MVP, MCSD]]

Perhaps you should use the DirectX library.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/directx

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I hope this helps,
Steve C. Orr, MCSD, MVP
http://SteveOrr.net
"David Pendrey" <fa*******@dodo .com.au> wrote in message
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Greetings,
I am writing an application which will need to move around 50 bitmaps
on the form at a speed high enough that it appears smooth. I am currently
using some custom controls to contain the bitmap and the logic for the
movement in the same location and have have a loop which updates all
bitmaps each 50ms (20fps). Unfortunatly the time taken to render this is
too great and my application does not function correctly. The solution
does not need ot be confined to a custom control but does need to be fast
and can be complicated. The bitmaps are small (about 30 pixels square) and
there are only 8 different bitmaps to display in multiple locations.
Thanks for the advice people

[Ken Tucker [MVP]]

Hi,

In addition to Directx there also is opengl

http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet...28/opengl.html

Ken
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"David Pendrey" <fa*******@dodo .com.au> wrote in message
news:42******** @news.comindico .com.au...
Greetings,
I am writing an application which will need to move around 50 bitmaps
on the form at a speed high enough that it appears smooth. I am currently
using some custom controls to contain the bitmap and the logic for the
movement in the same location and have have a loop which updates all bitmaps
each 50ms (20fps). Unfortunatly the time taken to render this is too great
and my application does not function correctly. The solution does not need
ot be confined to a custom control but does need to be fast and can be
complicated. The bitmaps are small (about 30 pixels square) and there are
only 8 different bitmaps to display in multiple locations. Thanks for the
advice people

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

"David Pendrey" <fa*******@dodo .com.au> schrieb:

I am writing an application which will need to move around 50 bitmaps on
the form at a speed high enough that it appears smooth. I am currently
using some custom controls to contain the bitmap and the logic for the
movement in the same location and have have a loop which updates all
bitmaps each 50ms (20fps). Unfortunatly the time taken to render this is
too great and my application does not function correctly. The solution does
not need ot be confined to a custom control but does need to be fast and
can be complicated. The bitmaps are small (about 30 pixels square) and
there are only 8 different bitmaps to display in multiple locations. Thanks
for the advice people

Some additional links on OpenGL:

Using OpenGL in .NET applications
<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/?id=opengl&lang =en>

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[David Pendrey]

Thanks!

"Steve C. Orr [MVP, MCSD]" <St***@Orr.ne t> wrote in message
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Perhaps you should use the DirectX library.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/directx

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I hope this helps,
Steve C. Orr, MCSD, MVP
http://SteveOrr.net
"David Pendrey" <fa*******@dodo .com.au> wrote in message
news:42******** @news.comindico .com.au...

Greetings,
I am writing an application which will need to move around 50 bitmaps
on the form at a speed high enough that it appears smooth. I am currently
using some custom controls to contain the bitmap and the logic for the
movement in the same location and have have a loop which updates all
bitmaps each 50ms (20fps). Unfortunatly the time taken to render this is
too great and my application does not function correctly. The solution
does not need ot be confined to a custom control but does need to be fast
and can be complicated. The bitmaps are small (about 30 pixels square)
and there are only 8 different bitmaps to display in multiple locations.
Thanks for the advice people