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From: byrd@husc7.HARVARD.EDU (John "The Squid" Byrd)
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Subject: Re: Another Smooth-Scrolling ML question
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Date: 4 Dec 89 18:30:25 GMT
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In article <3408@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> kfink@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Kevin Fink) writes:

>I am still having problems getting smooth scrolling to work. I am using
>double-buffering but it is still flickering. I think I know why.

Are you sure?  Maybe I'm missing something, but I didn't see the double-
buffering portion of the program just typed in.  Double buffering
refers to maintaining two complete and separate screens in memory and
swapping them occasionally.  There was a long thread of articles explaining
why smooth scrolling is tough to do without double buffering (the screen
scroll must be completed in less than 1/60 of a second).

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