Posted by Wade Walker on Nov 12, 2010; 9:24pm
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/Couple-of-questions-tp1889246p1891555.html

tomd wrote

My application is largely static, the scene changes rarely. It seems quite wasteful to redraw the frame over and over when it isn't even changing.

Totally true, and that's what we do at my day job with JOGL 1.1.1a and SWT. Game apps update the frame constantly and keep the CPU pegged, but for engineering/science/graphics apps, the user only expects a redraw in response to user action. If you're not touching the mouse, the CPU should be at 0%

I'll try this out with JOGL 2.0 and see if there's something wrong with drawing without an animator.