Hello I have noticed a performance drop either related to updating layers or related to updating the picture to screen in the imageenview component, since TImageEnView and TImageEnMView has started to expose the Touch property. Are you aware of any performance drop this may have caused? I have found this problem by compiling our TImageEnPAintEngine component with both versions of imageen with identical conditions. The drop is not detectable when painting on the backround layer but it is marked when painting on any of the other layers.
Francesco Savastano Nwscomps.com Add-ons for the ImageEn Library
Hello, have you noticed the the performance drop using TImageEnPaintEngine or even with TImageEnView/TImageEnMView alone? In this last case, please provide some code to replicate the performance drop.
Well I can only offer a comparison using the same code of tImageEnPaintEngine and compiling it with the two different versions of imageEn for now. What is obvious to me is that some imageen function the paint engine is calling extensively before worked faster and after imageEn has been upgraded works quite slower. One of my guess is that there may be some overhead with the updaterect method in imageEn. I will try to study this issue more and report to you.
Francesco Savastano Nwscomps.com Add-ons for the ImageEn Library
Hi Francesco, maybe GetPixels_ie8 is a bit slow now. Anyway it should not be called to loop among image pixels. Do you read Pixels_ie8[] property in your code?
Hi Fabrizio, yes I used the pixels_ie8 property to read the alpha channel in a loop, it was very handy and enough fast before. I need to replace it with scanline access or array of scanlines now.. let me know of any other workarounds...
Francesco Savastano Nwscomps.com Add-ons for the ImageEn Library
var px: pbyte;
...
for row := 0 to ImageEnView.IEBitmap.Height - 1 do
begin
px := ImageEnView.IEBitmap.Scanline[row];
for col := 0 to ImageEnView.IEBitmap.Width - 1 do
begin
...replace ImageEnView.IEBitmap.Pixels_ie8g[] with "px^"...
inc(px);
end;
end;
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Performance drop from v.4.0.2 to later versions
Posted - Aug 10 2013 : 10:24:33
