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Approach for partial redrawing on 2D environment

Posted Wednesday, 18 July, 2012 - 11:49 by rounder8 in

Hi, I've got a trading program that uses 2D drawing only. I made my first implementation with GDI+ but ran into performance problems. This is a sample of the graphics (made with GDI+) during slow market activity. When market starts acting quickly GDI implementation gets too slow.

I started to implement the drawing with OpenGL in order to make it faster. How should I approach updating only parts of the screen that are actually changed instead of redrawing everything? How do I keep front and back buffers synched when using double buffering (default in OpenTK)? Right now I'm ending up with situation where one buffer is showing a part of the whole picture and the other buffer the another part of the picture which causes flickering and confusion.

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Re: Approach for partial redrawing on 2D environment

Posted Friday, 20 July, 2012 - 10:06 by rounder8

Hmm I think the previous post must have been posted on a wrong thread. Anyway I figured out a solution that seems quick enough for now.

Every time something new is painted (after backbuffer is swapped to front) I just copy everything from current frontbuffer to backbuffer like this:

public void SwapAndCopyBuffers()
{
            SwapBuffers();
 
            GL.ReadBuffer(ReadBufferMode.Front);
            GL.DrawBuffer(DrawBufferMode.Back);
            GL.CopyPixels(0, 0, Width, Height, PixelCopyType.Color);
 
}

Updating the whole screen even hundreds of times a second with multiple instruments causes no problems at all with this method. Considering I can optimize the code by updating only the neccessary parts this will be extremely fast method.