From 70e33fe135e393d32aab6fe9a69aadb99d67e862 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marty Oehme <marty.oehme@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2018 19:08:26 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix Rendering when no Changes occured

Rendering checks a dirty flag which gets set whenever a cell updates by changing their state.
---
 lib/src/Cell.dart | 5 +++++
 lib/src/Grid.dart | 8 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/src/Cell.dart b/lib/src/Cell.dart
index 3111708..5301fb6 100644
--- a/lib/src/Cell.dart
+++ b/lib/src/Cell.dart
@@ -6,11 +6,16 @@ class Cell {
   List<Rule> surviveRules = new List<Rule>();
   List<Rule> birthRules = new List<Rule>();
 
+  /// For determining if render updates are necessary in [Grid].render() function
+  bool dirty = false;
+
   Cell([bool state = false]) : this.state = state;
 
   void advanceState() {
     this.state = this.nextState;
     this.nextState = false;
+
+    this.dirty = true;
   }
 
   void update(int neighbors) {
diff --git a/lib/src/Grid.dart b/lib/src/Grid.dart
index 154283e..b0d7e9f 100644
--- a/lib/src/Grid.dart
+++ b/lib/src/Grid.dart
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ class Grid {
   final int h;
   final List<List<Cell>> map;
 
+  bool _dirty = true;
+
   Grid(int w, int h)
       : this.w = w,
         this.h = h,
@@ -82,6 +84,7 @@ class Grid {
       for (int x = 0; x < w; x++) {
         // DEFAULTS TO CONWAY GAME OF LIFE RANGE OF ONE
         map[y][x].update(getSurroundingNeighbors(x, y, 1));
+        if (!_dirty && map[y][x].dirty) _dirty = true;
       }
     }
     for (int y = 0; y < h; y++) {
@@ -110,6 +113,9 @@ class Grid {
   }
 
   void render(html.CanvasElement canvas, [num interp]) {
+    // only renders if any cells changed between renders
+    if (!_dirty) return;
+
     html.CanvasRenderingContext2D ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');
     int brickW = (canvas.width ~/ map[0].length);
     int brickH = (canvas.height ~/ map.length);
@@ -124,5 +130,7 @@ class Grid {
         ctx.fillRect(x * brickW, y * brickH, brickW, brickH);
       }
     }
+
+    _dirty = false;
   }
 }