[Mono-winforms-list] Mono 1.1.5 and Winform OSX Performance?

[kangaroo]

The mac driver is slower because the cairo backend is slow.  It needs 
to be rewritten.

-kangaroo

On 31-Mar-05, at 2:32 AM, Peter Dennis Bartok wrote:

> The speed is there on X11 and on Win32, I can see no reason why SWF 
> apps
> wouldn't have the same speed on the Mac.
>
> However, since the driver for the Mac has so far been done by a single
> volunteer, maybe he can get some help? It seems that there's a lot of 
> people
> asking/wanting, but nobody contributing?
>
> Cheers,
>   Peter
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: <andrew@castlesoft.com.au>
> To: <mono-winforms-list@ximian.com>
> Date: Wednesday, 30 March, 2005 22:44
> Subject: [Mono-winforms-list] Mono 1.1.5 and Winform OSX Performance?
>
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I know OSX Winforms are still very very early alpha..
>>
>> But.. I do have a couple of questions.
>>
>> When I tested a simple example using the 1.1.5 DMG file I noticed a 
>> coupe
>> of things.
>>
>> 1) Initially all controls were displayed for 0.5 sec, then some
>> disappeared.
>>    If I move the mouse over the area or resize the winform they
>> reappeared.
>>
>> 2) The controls look ok, but speed is very average..
>>     For example.. If I have a tab control and select the second page
>>     you see the empty page then the controls apear.
>>
>>     Also when I moved a slider the gui updates ok etc.
>>     But there is a noticable lag between movement and display update.
>>
>> Will Mono be able to run GUI apps with a native look/speed when the 
>> code
>> base is optimised ?
>>
>> Any info much appreciated.
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>>
>>
>>
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