Toggling editor scale to Aspect takes a long time about directguidesigner HOT 3 CLOSED

Hi,

sorry for taking so long to respond, seems I haven't been notified about your issue reports... Anyways, yeah, I am aware of this behavior, but I don't know where it comes from yet. It wasn't a high priority for me as I expected people would switch only once at the beginning of editing a GUI. I'm not even sure if it's fully possible to use both scales at the same time with the editor. But will take a look at it and see if I can enhance the editor performance in general.

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After some investigating, the culprit turns out to be the DirectGrid object.
In this line of code, when I change the grid spacing to a much smaller value like e.g. 0.005, the lag accordingly increases tenfold, more or less.
It seems that DirectGrid regenerates its geometry when setGridSpacing is called on it, creating as many grid lines as needed, depending on the given value, as well as on the current grid size.

So the solution seems quite simple: change the order of the calls to setGridSpacing and setGridSize; this made the lag disappear for me.
(Note that the order of these calls should not be changed in the code that switches from aspect2d to pixel2d.)

Hopefully that fixes this issue :) .

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Ah, yes, I also found that part. I've changed it a little differently though. In the new version I'm seting the grid size to 1 so it doesn't need to calculate as much at all in those calls and then set the size back to the desired value, which enhances the performance even a little more. Sadly i haven't had time to commit those changes yesterday, but I'll try to get the fix for this and your other issue up today.
Anyways, thanks for taking a look into this too.

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