Animating lots of small bitmaps

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From: David Strout
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 14:42

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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.

dave.

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From: dstrout@isi.edu (David Strout)
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Subject: Animating lots of small bitmaps
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Date: 11 Aug 92 14:42:54 GMT
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