[plt-scheme] Double buffer (scheme/gui)

Oh! I misread the code. You need to create a single bitmap containing
the whole thing and then draw it. Don't draw two bitmaps (that's
what's causing your flicker).

Robby

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 12:59 PM, CHAMLY <marc.chamly at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well I already put the 'no-autoclear  to the canvas, my BITMAP-DC-1 (tunnel)
> doesn't flicker only my BITMAP-DC-2(Object) flickers, I will try to put the
> 'no-autoclear somewhere else, and see if it works.
>
> Thank you.
>
> On Apr 11, 2009, at 7:31 PM, Robby Findler wrote:
>
>> Probably you want to pass the 'no-autoclear style to the canvas%
>> object when you create it (I may have got the precise name wrong, but
>> it is listed in the docs for the initialization arguments to canvas%).
>>
>> But you also probably want to only recreate the bitmaps when their
>> content changes, not every time the window is refreshed. In other
>> words, all but the last line below should be somewhere else, not in
>> the on-paint method.
>>
>> Robby
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 12:25 PM, CHAMLY <marc.chamly at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> HI!
>>>
>>> I am programming a game on scheme using #lang scheme/gui, the game is
>>>  made
>>> of:
>>> 1) an object (copter) that when you click moves up, otherwise it falls
>>> down,
>>> and does not move horizontaly.
>>> 2) a tunnel that moves from right to left, giving the impression that the
>>> object is moving forward (moving to the right reaching the end of the
>>> tunnel).
>>>
>>>
>>> I have a little problem with my double buffer,
>>> I'm using two bitmaps one to draw the copter, and one to draw my tunnel
>>>
>>> Here is what i have in the paint-callback of my canvas:
>>>
>>>            (send BITMAP-DC-1 clear)              ; i move my tunnel
>>>            (send TUNNEL draw-tunnel1  BITMAP-DC-1  y1)
>>>            (send dc draw-bitmap BITMAP-1  (- x-canvas) 0 'solid))
>>>
>>>
>>>            (send BITMAP-DC-2 clear)     ; i move my copter
>>>            (send BITMAP-DC-2 draw-bitmap copterUp  0 0 'solid)
>>>
>>>            (send dc draw-bitmap BITMAP-2  150 (send COPTER get-y-copter)
>>>  'solid))
>>>
>>> The problem is that my copter still flickers, and i don't know why??
>>> (i don't draw my copter in BITMAP-DC-1 because afterwords i also use
>>> other
>>> bitmaps to draw my tunnel)
>>>
>>> thanks
>>>
>>>
>>> Marc
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