Best Practices for Graphics

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Drawing images won’t be faster than fillRect.

Lots of simple components should be more or less the same speed as lots of simple drawing if you enable setPaintingIsUnclipped.

This is a good high-level summary:

[Solved] Better Repaint Debugging

As mentioned above QuartzDebug is probably the best way to see what is actually being drawn to the screen, this should allow you to see the coalesced rectangle, and give you some idea of the components that are likely being repainted. I’ve never found the JUCE paint debugging tools to be overly helpful and normally misleading. The is all based on my experience, and it has been a while since I’ve had to do this. One thing I recommend doing is making sure every component has one of two jobs. Eith…