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From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Double Buffering
Message-ID: <1863@cadovax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 11-Nov-87 13:14:56 EST
Article-I.D.: cadovax.1863
Posted: Wed Nov 11 13:14:56 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 14-Nov-87 05:31:36 EST
References: <7768@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> <1038@sugar.UUCP>
Reply-To: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Organization: Contel Business Systems, Torrance, CA
Lines: 11
Keywords: double buffering, vertical retrace, screens

In article <1038@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>Why don't you just set up two screens and use ScreenToFront and ScreenToBack
>to flip them? These routines are (as far as I have been able to tell) as near
>instantanious as you can get. Let intuition worry about the copper lists.
>That's what it's for, after all.

I suppose that would work, but if you're waiting for IDCMP messages, it
could be a problem.

Keith Doyle
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