Re: drawables and refresh rates

[Rob Benton <rob benton conwaycorp net>]

Jan Hudec wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 11:14:58 -0600, Rob Benton wrote:
>
> > I have a Gdk::Drawable where I'm drawing 2 arcs.  A blue circle and a 
> > red arc drawn on top of the blue circle.  I've got 2 Gtk::HScale widgets 
> > using a DISCONTINUOUS_UPDATE that modify the angle and width of the red 
> > arc.  On update the the blue circle is redrawn and then the red is 
> > redrawn on top of it using the values from the scale widgets.  This 
> > causes some flickering on the drawing area.  Is there a better way to do 
> > this?
>
>
> Computer graphics 101. Double buffering.
>
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> 						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb ucw cz>


Well I'm a mediocre pencil & paper artist but I'm a total noob at 
computer graphics.  Do you guys know of any resources I could use to get 
started?

Thanks