September 13, 2005

flash 8 goodie: Show Redraw Regions

After installing Flash8 today, I noticed something new in the right-click menu of the Flash player: Show Redraw Regions.

Cool! It seems to show you which rectangular areas of the stage are being redrawn every frame. This totally rocks when testing games, since you want to minimize the amount of redraw area per update.

It also proves that the new Flash 8 player has more intelligence in updating the stage, since it is now updating many small rectangles. Before, it would find the largest rectangle that would enclose all changing elements, and redraw all of it.

Bravo!

Posted by andy at September 13, 2005 02:59 PM
Comments

But how do you hide that redraw option?

Posted by: Scott at October 24, 2005 12:16 AM

that's only good when you're still making the game, so how could that be disabled when you don't want others to see how you achieved a good framerate?

Posted by: Mj Mendoza at March 9, 2006 12:53 AM

In my site i have a portion is flash. I have also had javascript in it but i canot see the java s when it is gone to flash. please go throught the site and give me advise soon as possible

Posted by: paul at May 5, 2006 04:22 AM
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