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Re: Problems with snapshot of Render

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From: Roy Hashimoto
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 15:59
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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
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