Re: Quesa on the Mac not synchronizing with monitor's vertical retrace

[James W. W. <os...@jw...>]

On Jul 28, 2005, at 10:11 PM, Mikey wrote:

>     // Tell OpenGL to sync with the vertical retrace of the monitor.
>     {
>         const GLint syncEveryFrame = 1;
>         aglSetInteger( glContext, AGL_SWAP_INTERVAL,  
> &syncEveryFrame );
>     }
>
> I didn't see any reference to this sort of thing in the archives so  
> I'm not sure if it was omitted on purpose or if it was an  
> oversight.  If it was an oversight, I'd like see about getting it  
> added to the actual CVS codebase.

I looked this up in Apple docs, and while they say what the switch  
does, there is no discussion of pros and cons.  There must be some  
cons, or Apple would have made it the default behavior, no?