Re: gnomecanvas question

[Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com>]

>Say I have a 2D space that's potentially very large.  I need to be
>able to display various player icons on this world (they rotate and
>move around in this space) and draw a grid on it.
>
>Players shouldn't really be limited to a certain area of movement,
>they should be able to move pretty darned far.  So if I initialize a
>gnomecanvas that's 1000000x1000000, they could probably move off of
>that and I'd have to resize the viewable area.
>
>And if I initialize a huge world up front and draw grids all over it,
>the application takes a long time to start.
>
>So, what I really need to do is make the world big enough to contain
>all the players, even when the players move around (the world should
>expand as the players move away from the center).
>
>Ideas on how to properly implement something like this?  Another
>problem I've run in to is that when the world / viewable area is very
>large, the scroll bars don't provide very good movement (think
>scrolling in a million page document or something).

you haven't provided even close to enough information to really help you.

is this an AA canvas? how are you drawing the grid?

--p