RE: Slow Rendering?

["Dennie, Brooke" <BDennie cas org>]

Hi again,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sven Neumann [mailto:sven gimp org]
> Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 6:04 AM
> To: Dennie, Brooke
> Cc: 'gtk-list gnome org'
> Subject: Re: Slow Rendering?
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> "Dennie, Brooke" <BDennie cas org> writes:
> 
> > I have an application that works perfectly, but rendering is
> > extremely slow (bringing up the application takes over 8
> > seconds, a popup window takes a little over 4). While I
> > realize that it isn't necessarily a guarantee that this is the
> > problem, stepping through the application with gdb shows that
> > the bulk of this (4-5 seconds) occurs when I try to show the
> > top widgets. However, if I take out all changes to the
> > background colors and fonts, the time drops to 3 seconds to
> > bring up the applicaton and < 1 second for popup windows. I
> > don't know if changing these via the rc file is faster, but
> > that option isn't available to me anyway since I won't know
> > what colors or fonts to use until run-time. Any ideas on
> > what's going on? I can supply some code if necessary.
> > 
> > Thanks for any help!
> > 
> > Brooke
> > 
> > PS - I'm working on a sparc ultra 5 that runs Solaris 8, BUT
> > the application is running from a window where I've ssh'd to a
> > linux terminal that runs redhat 9 with a 2.4.20-18.9 kernel
> 
> It would help if you mentioned the version of GTK+ you are using and
> perhaps which Pango backend is in use.
> 
> 

Oops! Of course! Sorry. GTK+ is version 2.2.1. I'm not 
entirely sure what you mean by backend (sorry, I'm still
pretty new to this), but I think it's pangoxft. Running
pkg-config --list-all didn't show anything of interest,
but pkg-config --modversion xft found a version 2 so I'm
guessing that's what it's using?

Brooke


> Sven
>