Tweener.ClutterFrameTicker: Cinnamon Javascript Reference Manual

## Tweener.ClutterFrameTicker Tweener.ClutterFrameTicker — Object used internally for clutter animations |

## Object Hierarchy

        Object
        ╰── Tweener.ClutterFrameTicker

## Description

The 'FrameTicker' object is an object used to feed new frames to Tweener so it can update values and redraw. The default frame ticker for Tweener just uses a simple timeout at a fixed frame rate and has no idea of "catching up" by dropping frames.

We substitute it with custom frame ticker here that connects Tweener to a Clutter.TimeLine. Now, Clutter.Timeline itself isn't a whole lot more sophisticated than a simple timeout at a fixed frame rate, but at least it knows how to drop frames. (See HippoAnimationManager for a more sophisticated view of continous time updates; even better is to pay attention to the vertical vblank and sync to that when possible.)