🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1992Aug11.134312.16390@wam.umd.edu> dmb@wam.umd.edu (David M. Baggett) writes:
>In article <BstLnJ.Lv6@news.cso.uiuc.edu> tmkk@uiuc.edu (Khan) writes:
>>There's no way I know to draw to both pages at once. What you have to do
>>is draw your status info to one page and then draw it again to the
>>other. This takes twice as long to do.
>
>OK, now I see what you were getting at.  You are doing twice as much
>work to update score counters and any other status information because
>this "static" stuff needs to be drawn to both (all) page flip screens
>at the "same time." [...]
>
>But this is just a price to be paid for page flipping -- I don't see
>how a split screen would eliminate this problem either.  If you make
>the status display half of the split screen a static image (i.e., not
>page flipped) then you've got a flicker problem.

Flicker? Hmm... I wouldn't expect drawing to a static split screen
"window" would exhibit any more flicker than drawing to a full screen in
non-double-buffer mode. Why would there be a problem with flicker?