Re: [Freeglut-developer] Helvetica 12 bitmap "f" and "j"

[Mike A. <mi...@mi...>]

Richard Rauch wrote:

>On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 01:56:41PM -0700, Mike Austin wrote:
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>>>If MsgWait*() works, I'd suggest staying with that.
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>>To my knowledge there was no sleep or wait call in fgSleepForEvents(), 
>>so I first added a MsgWait().  The timeout needed to be the smallest 
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>Looks like it's there, to me.
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>Possibly it is incorrectly done and does not sleep properly, but
>the line of code is there, I think.
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Io is currently using 2.2.0 and it is not there, so it was probably 
added recently.

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>>possible, so the call was not any more efficient than plain Sleep(), 
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>Why wouldn't it be?
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>With waiting for multiple events, you can wait more or less indefinitely
>if there are no timer-based events and no idle callback.  (Regrettably,
>legacy joystick support is timer-based polling, which messes up things.)
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Yes, it can be more efficient.  But like you say, timers and the idle 
callback require the least amount of blocking.  If there are no timers 
or an idle callback, I guess the timeout could be set to INFINITE.  I 
don't know if it's really worth doing,

>>especially since vertical sync is going to make your app wait anyway.  
>>Well, I guess it depends on how your app is written.
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>Yep...it does depend on the application.  (^&
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