[sword-devel] SwordReader - Experimental Double Buffering added.

[David Trotz]

Verse scrolling is now fixed and committed.
-- David

David Trotz wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have been thinking of ways to improve the amount of time it takes for 
> the display to show anything when changing the text. In some cases its 
> as much as 4 seconds! So I decided to take an approach used often in 
> computer graphics, double buffering. In our case the buffer is an html 
> page. I have implemented a system with two html displays, so that when 
> there are 1500 characters ready to be processed I immediately show the 
> text on the screen using the first html display, meanwhile I continue to 
> load the rest of the text and once it is done I hide the first html page 
> and show the other one which has the entire text in it. This approach is 
> highly experimental and has kinks in it. I broke the verse scrolling but 
> will fix it soon, I wanted to see how much faster this really is. It is 
> definitely faster. Now that I know it will help I will begin the process 
> of smoothing out my kinks. The code is in subversion.
>