Re: Animating lots of small bitmaps

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From: Andrew Loewenstern
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 04:09

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In article <22171@venera.isi.edu> dstrout@darpa.mil (David Strout) writes:
>I need to animate many (up to 40) small (48>x>20) bitmaps in a view
>under 3.0.  (Think what the X game netrek looks like)  I tried doing
>it with a subview per bitmap, but that flashed badly.  I tried putting
>them all in the drawSelf:: of the main view, but that makes the whole
>view flash.  Current idea is to define a Type 3 font with my bitmaps,
>then use xyshow to draw them.  This seems really gross.  If I wanted
>to do graphics with fonts, I'd program (pick one: X, TI99/4a, IBM PCs)
>etc.  Does anyone have a better method?  Ideas welcome, example code 
>even better.

turning flushWindow off before drawing will hide the flashing, but
compositing may be too slow...  Fonts are really fast though.


andrew
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