Specifications

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1. The Page background is drawn OR the Theme Page is drawn

2. The Page Components are all drawn in the order in which they occur

3. Any Logic graphics are drawn on top

Essentially, this behaves as a series of "Layers" which may hide each other.

Note that if a Theme Page has a parent Theme Page, then the parent will be drawn first.

See also Optimising Drawing Speed

1.4.3.5 Slow Operation

If the PICED screen update is slow it is generally related to the computer processor being too

busy. There are several possible causes, listed below. To confirm whether this is the cause of the

problem, use the Processor Usage feature in the log to determine how much processor is being

used. If it is continually more than around 25%, you may have problems.

Inadequate Computer Specification

See Computer Requirements.

Other Programs

If other programs are running on the computer, it is possible that they are using up a large

proportion of the computer resources, slowing down the performance of PICED.

Project Design

If a page has a clock on it, it will be re-drawn every second. If a page has an animated image on it,

it will be redrawn as often as 10 times per second. On these pages which are redrawn regularly, it

is best to avoid things which require a lot of computer processing, unless you have a fast computer

large JPEG images which require a lot of processing to de-compress

images which have been re-sized (it is best to re-size the image with a graphic editing program

and use the re-sized image in PICED

a lot of components on a page

large polygons with many sides or 3D ellipses

large areas of Alpha Blending

1.4.4 Diagnosing System Problems

If your C-Bus system is not behaving as expected, there are several tools and techniques you can

use in order to resolve the problem.

Tools

PICED Log

The Logging feature of the software allows you to record selected information about what the

software and C-Bus is doing.

PICED Reports

The

PICED

software can generate several reports :

check the project for errors

logic report

project summary

user manual

All of these can be of assistance with diagnosing problems.