IPlug/WDL: how to do framebuffered animation with controllable framerate?

[hq9000]

Hi all,

What is the best way to achieve smooth animation with controllable framerate, which is cross-platform (Win/Mac)?

In MultiTarget example, we have a class IPeakMeterVert, which has

bool IsDirty() { return true;}

so as I see, the redraw is requested whenever the host decides to call this method (perhaps indirectly).

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*this is the question N1*:
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let's say we want to control how often the control is being redrawn. How do we do that in Iplug/WDL, preferably in transparently cross-platform way (we want this class to compile and work without changes for WIN VST and MACOSX AU.

Then the animation itself needs to be smoother. I guess the way forward is to draw the the pre-rendered updated version of control "in memory" and then quickly showing it on the screen.
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how do we achive this way of smooth animation in WDL/Iplug?

Please forgive my ignorance in case if I'm asking abvious things. Probably I'm asking wrong questions whatsoever. Maybe there is another "right" way to approach this problem (smooth and cross-platform animation). Any hint/pointer to examples/docs whould be much appreciated.

Thanks.

[Youlean]

You can change framerate in IGraphics.cpp. That will give you smoother graphics.

#define DEFAULT_FPS 120