From: "Alex " <alex99 AT death-star DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: allegro - sprites and smudge on screen
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 19:01:48 GMT
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Christoph Kukulies <kuku AT gilberto DOT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de> wrote in article
<199703181247 DOT NAA10767 AT gilberto DOT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>...
>
> When I'm doing a show_mouse(NULL) before I'm doing the drawing the
> smudge disappears but this is leading to intolerable flickering
> of the sprite.
> 

I do know what you can do for the flickering, but that's about it:

You need to check if the cursor has been moved yet, if it has tell the
program to redraw the sprite, if not tell it not to redraw the sprite.
I hope this helps

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Alex

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