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- From: klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee)
- Subject: Re: Animation
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.170717.20957@PA.dec.com>
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- Organization: DEC Western Software Laboratory
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- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 17:07:17 GMT
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- |> Somebody posted earlier, and I too would like to know: What is the
- |> fastest way to produce non-flickering animation.
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- Three popular methods are:
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- 1. the multi-buffer extension, if your server(s) support it
- 2. draw to the window, manipulating the colormap to show the right image
- 3. draw to an off screen pixmap, then copy to the window
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- The first is easiest, if you can use it. The second is very efficient and
- there was an article on this in the *X Journal* a couple of months ago. The
- third is the slowest, but is easy for beginners to understand.
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- Ken Lee
- DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
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