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Solved the performance problems by introducing the concept of a single-buffered display, which is a fast path used for the whole-surface SDL 1.2 API. Solved the flicker problems by implementing a backbuffer in the GDI renderer. Unfortunately, now using the GDI renderer with a backbuffer and HBITMAPs is significantly slower than SDL's surface code. *sigh*
author Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org>
date Wed, 12 Jul 2006 06:39:26 +0000
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>SDL_Flip</H1
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>SDL_Flip&nbsp;--&nbsp;Swaps screen buffers</DIV
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>(SDL_Surface *screen);</CODE
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>On hardware that supports double-buffering, this function sets up a flip
and returns.  The hardware will wait for vertical retrace, and then swap
video buffers before the next video surface blit or lock will return.
On hardware that doesn't support double-buffering, this is equivalent
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setting the video mode for this function to perform hardware flipping.</P
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