Author Topic: Statistics tool does not produce values for BlinkScreen  (Read 2888 times)

Offline georg.viehoever

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Statistics tool does not produce values for BlinkScreen
« on: 2014 February 04 02:30:49 »
... as can be seen in ScreenShot. I am using the latest build 1087.
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Offline Juan Conejero

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Re: Statistics tool does not produce values for BlinkScreen
« Reply #1 on: 2014 February 05 01:23:58 »
This is a limitation of the current Blink tool. BlinkScreen is not a normal image window, in the sense that it is controlled in real time by the Blink tool. For the sake of performance, Blink does not broadcast ImageUpdated messages during animation, so other tools and even the core application have no way to know that the image transported by BlinkScreen has changed.

This can be improved in several ways. For example, once you stop Blink's animation, an ImageUpdated message could be issued to keep the rest of the platform synced with BlinkScreen. I think this can be done very easily in the next version. Thank you for pointing this out.
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