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<SMARTIN@ESOC.BITNET> writes:

>I am writing an application that requires a number of text icons to be
>updated fairly regularly (frequency definable by the user). Currently, I
>am using the SWI SetIconState with zero arguments to force an update, but
>if the update frequency is more than a few frames per second, the flicker
>is quite intolerable with or without icon borders. I have also tried the
>SWIs ForceRedrawWindow and UpdateWindow (names may be slightly wrong), but
>this does not improve things. My question is, is it possible to use the old
>GCOL type tricks by EORing text into the Icon? If so, how is this done ?
>If not, will updating the Icon as a Sprite help ?

>Any other hints on how I could rid myself of this annoying flicker would be
>greatly appreciated.

You could try waiting for the vertical sync before updating. In Basic
this is done by WAIT, but there is an Os_Byte call (I don't recall the
number) that has the same effect.

	Torben Mogensen (torbenm@diku.dk)