FBA The Creator

Hi, just highlighting this. Fba doesn't respond
very well when an incoming call is received on
PDA phones. I've attached a screen capture (sorry
it's very small), but you can basically see what
happens. The title bar is there, as well as the keyboard
icon, the phone incoming dialog box appears for a
second and disappears. Is it possible for Fba to
tackle this more gracefully?

Also the general template used in the code examples
seem to be processor intensive, eg:

function onmainloop()
        clear(0,0,0)
        *drawimage*
end 

Is there any pitfalls to only draw if there is changes? eg

local boDraw = true
function onmainloop()
  if boDraw == true then
    *drawimage*
    boDraw = false
  end 
  
  if keypressed then
    *calculate*
    boDraw = true
  end  

end 

One problem with this is once the fbacreator fade in/out ad is gone, it'll leave behind a black box where it used to be. To solve this I'd like to propose that a special event is fired after the ad is gone so we can do a screen refresh call.

Usually you can skip the clear(0,0,0) call if you are going to do full screen drawing operations;
this could save some cpu time...
(For example, if you're drawing a full screen image, you can safely skip the clear call).

By the way, you have to draw images on every frame or you will get a flashing effect

For the next releases, i'll add onsuspend and onresume events that could help on incoming calls (actually they're here, but they aren't used)

Regards.

Alright, no flashing on my pda tho



Great to hear this