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From: jmunkki@hila.hut.fi (Juri Munkki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: choosing animation sync methods
Message-ID: <1991Apr22.191616.5127@santra.uucp>
Date: 22 Apr 91 19:16:16 GMT
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In article <1991Apr22.152757.23565@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> rolf@sparc1 (Rolf Wilson) writes:
>  The original standard way to prevent flicker was to wait for
>TickCount() to increment before drawing. Of course, this does
>not work on machines with monitors whose refresh rate does not
>match the rate that TickCount() increments. Some code was
>given in the Usenet Mac Programmer's Guide for setting up a
>VBL task to tell you when the vertical blanking interval had
>begun.

>  My question is : how can I decide in advance which method to use?
>Certainly, for known machines I can just look at the machine id, what
>what about new ones?

Color QuickDraw machines can have refresh rates other than 60 Hz. I don't
know about third party displays for non-color QD machines, but I suppose
they do not support vertical blanking interrupts for external monitors.

For sample code in Think C, you can retrieve the Sega 3D files from
vega.hut.fi. The files are in pub/mac/finnish/sega3d/.
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