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Article #556Re: 320x400 question
From: David M. Baggett
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 18:52
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 18:52
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In article <Bss3pz.KLD@news.cso.uiuc.edu> tmkk@uiuc.edu (Khan) writes: >With a full screen, you have to draw the animation portion of the screen >AND the status information. This takes time, and since the status info >changes at a much slower rate than the animation, you're doing a lot of >drawing which is unnecessary since you're simply redrawing the exact >same picture over and over again. Is there something about the 320x400 mode that forces you to do this? I don't see any reason why you can't draw your status window on each of your page flip screens once and then just leave it there undisturbed. Whatever you left on a page flip screen last time through the loop will still be there next time, right? Dave Baggett dmb@wam.umd.edu
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Newsgroups: rec.games.programmer Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!wam.umd.edu!dmb From: dmb@wam.umd.edu (David M. Baggett) Subject: Re: 320x400 question Message-ID: <1992Aug10.185209.28572@wam.umd.edu> Sender: usenet@wam.umd.edu (USENET News system) Nntp-Posting-Host: rac2.wam.umd.edu Organization: University of Maryland, College Park References: <62430013@acf3.NYU.EDU> <gate.a346oB1w165w@toz.buffalo.ny.us> Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 18:52:09 GMT Lines: 15