what is renderTick?

[gordee]

Hi,


Can anyone give me an explanation of renderTick? I have seen it in peoples script a few times now. What are the pros and cons etc?

[Makc The Great]

the idea behind the "renderTick" is that there is some sort of clock
ticking and scene gets redrawn every time it ticks, no matter how much
changes had actually happened. the "renderTick" is therefor probably
"timer" or "enterFrame" event handler function name, and has no other
meaning than demonstrating people copy-pasting skills.

On 7/24/08, gordee <gordee@...> wrote:

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> Can anyone give me an explanation of renderTick? I have seen it in peoples
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[Ralph Hauwert]

Actually, it's like this.

BasicView supports startRendering(); stopRendering(); and  
renderSingle();

These functions make sure rendering is handled, and in turn make sure  
the onRenderTick(event:Event); function is called.
To add your own functionality to the basic rendering loop, or even  
remove the normal render calls do this :

override protected function onRenderTick(event:Event):void
{
        //Your functionality.
        super.onRenderTick(event);
}

So it's not a matter of copy paste, it's trying to help developers not  
having to do that kind of basic setup stuff.

Ralph.

On 24 jul 2008, at 11:36, Makc wrote:

> the idea behind the "renderTick" is that there is some sort of clock
> ticking and scene gets redrawn every time it ticks, no matter how much
> changes had actually happened. the "renderTick" is therefor probably
> "timer" or "enterFrame" event handler function name, and has no other
> meaning than demonstrating people copy-pasting skills.
>
> On 7/24/08, gordee <gordee@...> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> Can anyone give me an explanation of renderTick? I have seen it in  
>> peoples
>> script a few times now. What are the pros and cons etc?
>> --
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[Makc The Great]

ah ok, so this doesnt demonstrate people copy-pasting, but my me
making quick assumptions then.

On 7/24/08, Ralph Hauwert <r.hauwert@...> wrote:
> override protected function onRenderTick(event:Event):void

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