OpenEuphoria

Re: Falling Speckles Exercise

• Posted by Michael Packard <lgp at EXO.COM> Apr 25, 1997
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On Fri, 25 Apr 1997, Matt Sephton wrote:
>
> So, how about it? What is required is a small procedure that will add a
> delay into each pass, so that the algorithm runs at the same speed on
> all PCs (with a lowest common denominator number of stars).

Here's what I do, which works great:

atom frameclock

At the beginning of each animation frame:

frameclock=time()
:
: do whatever you do
:
:
while time()-frameclock<.05 do
end while

This will throttle the speed to 20 fps.  You'll need to set tick_rate(100)
or more as the default time increment is 1/18 of a second or so.

Michael Packard
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