From: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Allegro problem
Date: 23 Aug 1997 06:24:32 GMT
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Rudy Gingles (spy AT oregoncoast DOT com) writes:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm getting this strange problem when running a program I'm working on,
> which uses Allegro to draw bitmaps and RLE sprites onto the screen. I
> have an RLE sprite which move across the screen quickly, and as it
> moves, little bits of the sprite get sprinkled across the rest of the
> screen. I'm only using draw_rle_sprite() to draw it to the screen, so it
> couldn't be my code. Whats going on? Has anyone else had this problem?
> Maybe its a bug in Allegro? Please help! Thanks.

Oh, one thing else it can be. Are you displaying a mouse pointer? Hide it
when redrawing the screen. If the pointer gets redrawn while your rle
sprites are being drawn, very strange things can happen.

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