Efficiently draw a grid in Windows Forms
- by Joel
I'm writing an implementation of Conway's Game of Life in C#. This is the code I'm using to draw the grid, it's in my panel_Paint event. g is the graphics context.
for (int y = 0; y < numOfCells * cellSize; y += cellSize)
{
for (int x = 0; x < numOfCells * cellSize; x += cellSize)
{
g.DrawLine(p, x, 0, x, y + numOfCells * cellSize);
g.DrawLine(p, 0, x, y + size * drawnGrid, x);
}
}
When I run my program, it is unresponsive until it finishes drawing the grid, which takes a few seconds at numOfCells = 100 & cellSize = 10. Removing all the multiplication makes it faster, but not by very much.
Is there a better/more efficient way to draw my grid?
Thanks
