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From: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
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Subject: Re: Allegro and Dialogues
Date: 5 May 1996 04:12:29 GMT
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Nicholas Marrone (nmarrone AT smartlink DOT net) writes:
> Hullo,
> 	I am once again having trouble with the dialouges in Allegro because
> of my inexperience with it. I have been trying to display a bitmap
> while staying in the main dialogue. I've been able to do this, but
> allegro refreshes the bitmap constantly, and the sprites over it
> causing a lot of flickering. The way I've done this is by making a
> function in a dialouge list that displays a bitmap and all the sprites
> over it. I just want to display it all once, though, not constantly.
> Any suggestions? I want to stay in the dialouge so that it will update
> buttons, lists, and other stuff like that. Any help appreciated.

This might be stupid but:

Do you call the function to display the bitmaps once, or are you perhaps
accidentally calling it every time something happnes, like every time the
mouse pointer moves, or something?

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