On Fri, 30 May 2003 13:16:54 +0100 Asier Goikoetxea Yanci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
babbled:

> Hi there,
> 
> I have writen an application to scroll a text on a window (just like kbanner 
> screen saver but on a window). I provide different texts and the program 
> scrolls them one after the other quite smoothly.
> 
> However, there is an issue that I didn't manage to solve, flickering. I've 
> been searching and I found that the flickering is caused because the print is 
> not synchronised with the vertical frecuency/signal (or at least is what I 
> understood). It seems that printing the text on the screen/window when vblank 
> is happening solves the problem of flickering. And it seems that I have to 
> use SYNC extension in order to solve this problem. Am I right? Correct me 
> please if I am wrong.
> 
> Well, the thing is that I have not clue on how to use SYNC extension, not even

that still wont solve the problem. use double buffering. draw to a pixmap - then when 
drawing is done copy it to the window.

> if it would solve my problem. Any suggestion is wellcome.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Asier
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