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Re: Ticks and VBL

To: REALbasic Games <realbasic-games at lists dot realsoftware dot com>
Subject: Re: Ticks and VBL
From: Asher Dunn <asher at fireyesoftware dot com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 15:49:32 -0400
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On Jul 19, 2005, at 3:44 PM, Ken Gish wrote:

Second, I was also asking for a point of contact at Apple to suggest changes to the ticks function. It seems like it would be possible and beneficial to synchronize the ticks (which I presume is a function that is based on the operating system) to VBL. If someone at RB can address why this would or would not be a good idea then that might save me the trouble of trying to contact someone at Apple (which I haven't been able to do yet despite several attempts to do so).

Yes, ticks is based on OS functionality, so it would not make sense to sync the ticks function to the refresh rate of the monitor ;-) The ticks function is not related to the refresh rate at all; it is just a coincidence that a tick is 1/60 of a second and a common refresh rate is 60x a second. Making ticks track the refresh rate of the monitor would make no sense at all.

Asher Dunn
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