[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: SWT Advanced Graphics slow on linux?

[Jesse Eichar <jeichar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Victor,

That could be the issue, I do make use of setTransform and fairly often 
at that.

I am going to look into trying to find a work-around for that.

Jesse

Victor Llorens wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm so sorry for not to solve your problem, but I developed an 
> aplication for linux using SWT advanced graphics, and I had problems 
> that finally didn't have any solution.
> The slowness was in the function GC.setTransform(Transform) and that 
> took minutes! to the data to be painted.
>
> Finally we couldn't realize if it was an SWT, linux cairo, or a GTK 
> problem.
>
> I have donwloaded SWT 3.3M2 and it works fastly, but it does not perform 
> text rotation :S
>
> Well... I think we have to wait a "little" to use SWT advanced graphics.
>
> luck...