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Topic: allow double-buffering to be turned off (Read 258 times) |
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Douglas Wolf
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allow double-buffering to be turned off
« on: Aug 19th, 2003, 7:13pm » |
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It would be in some cases useful to be able to turn off the automatic double-buffering behavior. If there are a large number of shapes being animated and the processor can't keep up with the desired frame-rate (say, we're using the full screen area and there are multiple 'zones' of which the animation is but one, each zone on its own thread, throw in mouse event handlers, sound, all having a priority the same as or higher than the animation, and say we're running on Mac OS 9 with G3 or early G4 CPU), then by turning off double-buffering we'll gain smoothness at the cost of some flicker.
In any case, it would be nice if the programmer had the choice of using double-buffering or not.
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