Quick display

Hello,
I present here a simplified version of my problem. I
developed a little application which is drawing 3000 dots on a
canvas. My big trouble is the execution fastness of this
application.
I tried 2 methods :
- at first, I loop 3000 times, creating and adding
UIComponent objects on the canvas. This takes about 6 seconds. This
delay is too-long for my specifications fastness demand. If
understand correctly flash player mechanism, it's waiting for
making computations before displaying the execution, so that's a
blocking functionality.
- after, I tried to "oblige" flash player to displaying the
execution with a timer (and a framerate of 50). But this solution
is worst because flex draw again all previous dots already drawn.
Here is my source code (there are not comments, but it's a
simple code)
I'm looking for a solution which would permit me to get a
faster and smooth display.
Thanks.

Hi and thank you for your response.
That's right, if I use only one UIComponent to draw my
circles, the display duration is better. But I need to identify
each point (in order to permit click or mouse over events), that's
why I need to draw each point on a single container.
We suggest me to use bitmapData, but I don't know this
object, and I'm always looking for how can I use this...
Thanks.

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