Raymond Luxury-Yacht wrote: > To learn python, I've been trying to write a simple graphics program > which displays a 1D cellular automaton's evolution. The last time I > wrote this program, it was in C for a CGA adaptor (!) in which the > display was mapped to two interlaced blocks of memory, and scrolling > up two lines of pixels was very simple and very smooth. The code > below works, and uses pygame for the graphics. But the scrolling is > quite flickery when using large windows. I'm sure that the code > contains various neophyte python errors, and I'd appreciate any > comments on that, but my main question is how I ought to have coded it > in order to have the scrolling be smooth. I did see a comment on a > pygame site saying that pygrame should not be used for side-scrollers, > to which this is similar. Is there a better way with python?
You need to to double-buffering. Just as in the old days... http://www.pygame.org/docs/tut/intro/intro.html Look for pygame.display.flip() Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
