From: Derek Greene Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Bad Flicker Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 22:38:10 -0400 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Lines: 13 Message-ID: <3626B192.AB909352@mindspring.com> References: <7061oc$6o8$1 AT nntp DOT gulfsouth DOT verio DOT net> NNTP-Posting-Host: user-38lcob6.dialup.mindspring.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server-Date: 16 Oct 1998 02:35:00 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5b2 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com The reasonf or the flicker, is the screen clear. When you clear the screen there is a little frame that is all black or whatever. If you do this once it probably wouldn't be noticed, but when you do it every other frame, it sticks out like a sore thumb. Simply put: don't clear the screen that often. Derek Greene Jameson wrote: > I am trying to make a program that utilises allegro's GFX abilities,but I > have a terrible flicker because I make the program clear the screen every > frame.Does anyone know how to prevent this??Or even another way to do it??