On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Steve Lamont wrote:
> > How do I turn double buffering on for a pixmap or canvas? Or are you
> > talking about a glcanvas? I thought using Mesa would be a little too much
> > overhead for displaying a simple 2d image (or series of images).
>
> A Pixmap object may be double buffered by calling the function
> fl_set_object_dblbuffer().
Ok, so how do I write to each buffer and how do I tell it to flip buffers?
(aka glXSwapBuffers in Mesa/OpenGL)
> In a Canvas object you need to handle all buffering yourself, either
> by one of the Xlib functions, such as XCopyArea(), or indirectly through
> an API such as Mesa3D.
Is this also true of canvas's if I'm using the 'background_pixmap'
attribute to display the image (as you suggested a few days ago).
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