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- From: hashimoto@sgi.com (Roy Hashimoto)
- Newsgroups: comp.graphics.explorer
- Subject: Re: Problems with snapshot of Render
- Message-ID: <pspro58@fido.asd.sgi.com>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 15:59:43 GMT
- References: <92258.132830SONDWIJA@HASARA11.BITNET>
- Sender: news@fido.asd.sgi.com (Usenet News Admin)
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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- In article <92258.132830SONDWIJA@HASARA11.BITNET> SONDWIJA@HASARA11.BITNET writes:
- >I am creating animations with Explorer and have some strange problems with
- >the Render module. The images that I have generated with the Render module
- >are written to disk by hooking up the Snapshot port to the WriteImg module.
- >Each time a picture of the animation is produced in the Render window
- >I fire the snapshot port and a picture is written to disk. However, not the
- >picture that is shown in the Render window is written out but the previous
- >picture. The result of all this is that my first picture of the animation is
- >rubbish and the last picture is missing. To me this looks like a problem
- >with some buffers or so but could somebody help me out ?
-
- We have recently discovered this problem using Starter graphics on an Indigo
- in double buffer mode. The workaround is to use single buffer mode; we are
- working on a fix for the next release.
-
- If you are using different graphics, please let us know.
-
- Roy Hashimoto
- hashimoto@sgi.com
-