lack of framerate?... need to think of a workaround

[traviskirton]

there is no framerate in C4iOS... on purpose.
the intention is to update things only when they need to be updated, and to let the system handle a lot of the animation implicitly.
this raises issues, though, because a lot of ideology (especially in creative coding languages) relies on the concept of a framerate and things being updated 30fps or whatever...
this impacts any kind of Vector class... because particle / physics / vector systems necessarily need some kind of update function.
also, the technique for rendering a lot of these systems uses a frame-based drawing technique (e.g. draw circle at X,Y now) and doesn't think about using some kind of implicit animations...
i am not sure how to get around this kind of thing, or if it needs to be got around at all...

[traviskirton]

I added timers to the framework, they should be used to create constantly updated scenarios. For instance, when adam asked me how to do a particular aesthetic where a shape changed points every frame, I added a timer to trigger animations between new shapes.

This should be fine for other things as well, including vector-based systems.