Off-stage content

Avoid placing content off-stage. Instead, just place objects on the display list when needed.

If possible, try not to place graphical content off-stage. Designers and developers commonly place elements off-stage to reuse assets during the lifetime of the application. The following figure illustrates this common technique:

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Off-stage content

Even if the off-stage elements are not shown onscreen and are not rendered, they still exist on the display list. The runtime continues to run internal tests on these elements to make sure that they are still off-stage and the user is not interacting with them. As a result, as much as possible, avoid placing objects off-stage and remove them from the display list instead.

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