Re: [Alephmodular-devel] Drawsprockets?

[Timothy C. <tco...@ha...>]

> Is there yet a more appropriate API than DrawSprockets for going right 
> to the display hardware of MacOS X? Right now CDisplay is very 
> centered towards the way AlephModular currently uses a single back 
> buffer that is always getting copied forward (A window back buffer and 
> appropriate flush to display calls) I'm sure this will turn up cases 
> of flicker (Places where info needs to be updated on both buffers not 
> getting updated properly) Hooking it up with DisplaySprokects should 
> help flush out those areas in need of improvement. But I really don't 
> know if DrawSprockets is the Apple recommended way of going about this 
> anymore.
>


 From what I understand (though I'm not sure how accurate it is), while 
the GameSprockets are still supported under OS X for backwards 
compatibility, they are no longer Apple's recommended method of doing 
things.  I get the impression that they intend OpenGL and Quartz to be 
the replacements, but I really don't know what all each of those 
technologies do, so I can't say how sensible that impression is.

But I'm pretty sure that the Sprockets are not what you're "supposed" 
to use anymore.

Timothy Collett

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