>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 _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
