[cairo] drawing circle is slow

_frank_ · **Joined:** Mon Oct 31, 2011 11:10 am **Posts:** 8

Hi,
i try to port my gtk-drawing functions to cairo, it seems to work, but cairo ist extremly slow (maybe my fault)...

example i draw ~2000 circles using this function:

Code:

void TCanvas::DrawEllipse(int x,int y,int w,int h,bool filled) 
{
  gdk_draw_arc (drawable, gc, filled, x, y, w, h, 0,64*360);
}

this takes ~50 ms...same with cairo:

Code:

const double full_circle=2*M_PI;

void TCanvas::DrawEllipse(int x,int y,int w,int h,bool filled) 
{
  //cairo_arc(cairo_t *cr,double xc,double yc,double radius,double angle1,double angle2);
  cairo_arc(cr, x+w/2, y+h/2, w/2, 0, full_circle);
  if (filled) 
    cairo_fill(cr); 
  else 
    cairo_stroke(cr);

  cairo_close_path(cr);
}

takes nearly 1000ms.

how can i speedup this? i have antialiasing disabled...

regards Frank

_frank_ · **Joined:** Mon Oct 31, 2011 11:10 am **Posts:** 8

has noone an idea, how to get this faster done? i also tried without close_path, but nothing changes.

my current try is to draw as tiled pixmap:

old code:

Code:

  for (int i=1;i<fWidth;i++)
  {
      for (int j=1;j<fHeight;j++)
      {
        p=Point(i,j);
        p=CalcAbsolute(p);
      //Canvas_Circle(pm,x-fHoleRadius,y-fHoleRadius,2*fHoleRadius,2*fHoleRadius,clr);

        canvas_grid.DrawEllipse(p.x-fHoleRadius,p.y-fHoleRadius,2*fHoleRadius,2*fHoleRadius);
         //DrawPoint(pixmap_grid,i,j,clSilver);
      }
  }

new code:

Code:

  GdkPixmap *pm_tmp = gdk_pixmap_new(DrawingArea->window,
                          fHoleSpacing,
                          fHoleSpacing,
                          24);

  TCanvas cv_tmp;
  cv_tmp.Init(pm_tmp);
  cv_tmp.SetFGColor(clSilver);
//draw a single circle as pattern
  cv_tmp.DrawEllipse(0,0,2*fHoleRadius,2*fHoleRadius);
//draw this pattern starting at position fHoleRadius
  canvas_grid.DrawTiledPixmap(pm_tmp,fHoleRadius,fHoleRadius,w-fHoleRadius,h-fHoleRadius);
  gdk_pixmap_unref(pm_tmp);

where DrawTiledBitmap is defined like this:

Code:

void TCanvas::DrawTiledPixmap(GdkPixmap *pixmap,int x,int y,int w,int h)
{
   gdk_cairo_set_source_pixmap (cr, pixmap, 0, 0);
   cairo_pattern_set_extend (cairo_get_source (cr), CAIRO_EXTEND_REPEAT);
   cairo_rectangle (cr, x, y, w, h);
   cairo_fill (cr);
}

this draws faster, but i cannot get my circles aligned the right way.
cairo starts not with a full pattern in the upper left corner...how to get this solved?
i've solved the incorrect alignment:

Code:

gdk_cairo_set_source_pixmap (cr, pixmap, 0-x, 0-y);

but maybe it exists a possibility to draw circles faster with cairo...pls post some suggestions

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