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Could someone point me in the right direction of what to use to most efficiently "draw" the red/green boxes as shown in my attached indicator? I'm not sure if I should be using a shape draw, or a filled square Wingding. There could be thousands of these little boxes on the screen...
These would be in an indicator box below the chart.
I would be assigning values to different things to draw the boxes at specific rows (e.g. 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, etc.)
Can you help answer these questions from other members on NexusFi?
You will have to do some tests
I'm thinking of, the number of handles that are available... 1000 is not a problem, but a long chart might be more of an issue... depends on the details, do the boxes stay static, once they are drawn ?
On a 30" monitor I have about 4000 displaying. But this on on a different platform that uses HTML5/Canvas (with Chrome + dual GPU hw acceleration - no problem).
I'd actually like to have 2 individual indicators like this per chart across 8 charts. So about 4000 objects per chart * 8 charts.... 32,000 objects. I have a pretty big system for it if that matters. i7-6700k w/64gb memory and dual cards. Not sure if NT will have issues processing this or not but I guess I'll find out. That's why I'm asking early in this thread how to best "draw" these boxes in a most efficient manner. I would think wingding squares maybe?
... but yes that's the intention.