One thing a place I worked at did was to create two ... I forget what they're called, but you could swap them back and forth with a simple JS command. It's kinda like a graphics buffer. When animation is drawn, the picture is drawn in an unseen buffer, then it's swapped with the viewing buffer while the other buffer (which was viewed) is now the drawing buffer. That way, the user doesn't see the drawing occur.

Sort of a bit like the JS "onmouseover/onmouseout" events, where you define two images, and as the user places the mouse over the image, it changes to the other image. But what you describe causes an 'animation' automatically, from Perl.

Thanks,

Peter

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