[SDL] Full-screen double buffereing in X (perhaps)?

Sam Lantinga slouken at devolution.com
Mon Jan 20 20:42:01 PST 2003


> What I'm wondering is if when:

> 1) XV is available and

> 2) the X11 "desktop" is more than twice as high or twice as wide as the
> desired resolution and

> 3) we are in full screen mode (and zoomed in using the XV extension)

> can we pan the screen up and down (or back and forth) fast enough to
> emulate double-buffering in full screen X11?

I don't think it would synchronize with the vertical blank, but otherwise
it might work.

See ya,
	-Sam Lantinga, Software Engineer, Blizzard Entertainment




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