How do I wait for vertical retrace?

[Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)]

On Tue, 6 May 2008 18:43:52 +0200 Nicolas George
<nicolas.george at normalesup.org> babbled:

> L'octidi 18 floréal, an CCXVI, Johan Walles a écrit :
> > I don't care about vertical retrace in itself, waiting for vertical
> > retrace would only be a way for me to achieve flicker-free animation
> > in a 2D application.
> 
> DOUBLE-BUFFER is no good for that: when used for continuous animation (such
> as video), it causes exactly as much tearing as a simple bitmap copy. At
> least it was true in November 2006.

it's been pretty much true as long as i have done anything with x (since about
1995...). i have yet to see is not tear...

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