I am now entering Kinetic and it has made it far easier for me to draw on canvas. However, building a game app, I need to clear the rectangle on every animation request. They're controlled by an fps cap script, but still, there are about 50 updates per second.
Kinetic's .removeChildren()
method not only clears the canvas, it deletes the canvas node from the DOM. Doing so not only makes DOM queries inconsistent by intervals of .02 second, but also drops my FPS rate by about 60% in comparison to stock HTML5 canvas handling on every machine I ran the game on.
Is there a KineticJS method for clearing the canvas in a manner such as clearRect()
's?
Edit:
I have also made sure it's not a problem on any other part of the program. Call stack doesn't overflow, the FPS drop is just due to DOM changing twice every .02 second.
Edit 2:
I have tried the following:
- Ignore the layer before and create a blank rectangle to fill up the visible part of the canvas. It dropped my frame rate to about 14 FPS;
- Use the
.clear()
method. It solved the DOM consistency problem but the frame rate got even lower than before.
It seems the only solution would be calling the default HTML5 clearRect()
method, but that would mean creating the canvas element by hand (and possibly making Kinetic useless as a library for my app).
Edit 3:
As for the app, I've started using standard HTML5 canvas since I have a deadline. I'd still like to see a Kinetic solution though - it might be helpful in the future. It surprises me to see such a simple thing is so hard, if not impossible, in a popular library like KineticJS.