Hi
Ok so i have a lcd monitor with a refresh rate of 60hz. What i want to do is synchronize my drawing with the refresh rate. So i might draw a circle on the first refresh and then wait 59 refreshes after which I draw a square. Basically i need to treat it like a slide show sought of.
How would i do this.
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Damian
which platform are u in windows/linux? and which utility toolkit if any are u using. FYI glut automatically keeps vsync on by default.
windows, no im not using a toolkit thought if thats required thats no prob. Basically what i want is like being able to assing a calback to the actual draw event, such that if the monitor were 60hz it would get called 60 times per second. Is there any way to do this.
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Damian
There is no callback on vsync AFAIK.
If you really want to be tied to 1/60 of the refresh rate, you can do wglSwapInterval(60);
Or simply run a timer within your code, triggered every second, with vsync on using wglSwapInterval(1); to avoid any tearing. This is a better solution, if you do not mind a little jitter (depending on timer precision, between rendered frame you may have 58 or 61 refreshes).
I am using windows and glut. What is the header for wglswapinterval. It cant find the function
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Damian
U would need glew for this and.
#include wglew.h
You don’t specifically need GLEW. Any extension loading software would do. Or just load the swap interval extension yourself.