Re: [Caml-list] How to synchtonize swap buffers with vertical retrace in lablgk/lablgtk, or labgl/labltk,

[Peter Ronnquist <pronnquist@yahoo.com>]

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--- Sami Mäkelä <sajuma@utu.fi> wrote:
> Peter Ronnquist wrote:
> > Some clarification, the behavior I get is that the
> > animation is not smooth. It is like the vetical
> > retrace is missed sometimes.
> > It could be that it do the flip at the
> correcttime,
> > but that the loop sometimes takes too long so that
> one
> > vertical retrace is skipped.
> 
> Here are some tips about how to make it faster:
> 
> * Use Sdlvideo.surface_display_format to convert the
>   image to faster format
> * Set the color depth to the depth of your screen
> * When using Sdlvideo.update_rect, Sdlvideo.flip is
> unnecessary.
>   I don't know if update_rect waits for vertical
retrace.

Thank you, the screen update was much faster with
update_rects. But it did not wait correctly for the
vertical retrace (it was barly noticeable though).

Best Regards 
Peter Rönnquist

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