motion.Actuate and requestAnimationFrame()

[Atul Kumar]

Hello,

I am using Actuate for targeting js. I recognized animations are running a bit 'choppy' and investigated a little bit. In SimpleActuator.hx I found this:

#if !actuate_manual_update
#if (flash || nme || openfl)
Lib.current.stage.addEventListener (Event.ENTER_FRAME, stage_onEnterFrame);
#elseif lime
Application.current.onUpdate.add (stage_onEnterFrame);
#else
timer = new Timer (Std.int(1000 / 30));
timer.run = stage_onEnterFrame;
#end
#end

So it seems that stage_onEnterFrame() is called with 30fps. Instead I would rather use requestAnimationFrame() instead.

I guess I can somehow set "actuate_manual_update" somehow and call stage_onEnterFrame myself somehow. But how would I do that? Is "actuate_manual_update" some kind of compiler argument?

Or is there any other way to make Actuate use requestAnimationFrame() instead of its own timer?

Thanks in advanced.

[Joshua Granick]

Should be able to do #elseif js here with requestAnimationFrame code. Feel
free to contact me if that doesn't work out :)

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[Atul Kumar]

Thanks Joshua. I will probably fork it and give it a shot.

I would prefer some way though without changing code inside Actuate itself, so I do not lock myself out of updates.

It seems to me your design provided a way to call stage_onEnterFrame() from outside by using these conditionals. Maybe it would better to leverage that? Since stage_onEnterFrame() is static I just could throw it inside my loop() function. But for that I would have to set "actuate_manual_update" to true somehow. How do I do that?

Cheers

[Atul Kumar]

Actually never mind.. I just found out.

For anybody else interested: just use compiler flag "-D actuate_manual_update". Then just call "motion.actuators.SimpleActuator.stage_onEnterFrame()" in your requestAnimationFrame handler and Voila.. Actuate runs in glorious 60fps :)

Thanks

[Joshua Granick]

Try and make the change within Actuate, then do a pull request. I'll
update the library, and you won't have to "manual update" again :)