Re: [pygame] OSX sprite flickering

[Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes. Why isn't there another group "visible", for lack of a better name, 
to which both people and bullets belong. Then only the visible.clear() 
and visible.draw() methods need be called.

Lenard

DR0ID wrote:
> Hi
>
> if you are using LayeredDirty or LayeredUpdates groups you should use 
> the clear and draw methods only once per iteration in you main loop 
> (otherwise the result may have artifacts and non desirable effects, 
> maybe this is missing in the docs?).
>
> ~DR0ID
>
> Daniel Mateos schrieb:
> > > Might need to toy with the ordering a bit.  I think clear-before-draw
> > > is correct, but I haven't played with it myself.
> > > -FM
> >
> > Hahaha you actually just solved my problem, calling clear after was 
> > working even tho its wrong but adding the additional sprites was 
> > lagging it enough to make it show.
> >
> > My Linux PC must have been too fast for it to matter.