Changes the current video display page
Syntax
Usage
Flip [ frompage ] [, topage ]
Parameters
frompage
previous page
topage
new page to display
Return Value
Returns zero (0) if successful, or a non-zero error code to indicate a failure.
Description
In normal graphics mode,
Flip is an alias for
PCopy and
ScreenCopy. See
ScreenCopy for details.
In OpenGL mode,
Flip does a hardware page flip and displays the contents of the backbuffer. It is recommended that you call
Flip regularly while in OpenGL mode, otherwise your app may also become unresponsive.
The error code returned by
Flip can be checked using
Err in the next line. The function version of
Flip returns directly the error code as a 32 bit
Long.
Example
ScreenRes 320, 240, 32, 2 'Sets up the screen to be 320x240 in 32-bit color with 2 video pages.
ScreenSet 1,0 'Sets the working page to 1 and the displayed page to 0
For n As Integer = 50 To 270
Cls
Circle (n, 50),50 ,RGB(255,255,0) 'Draws a circle with a 50 pixel radius in yellow on page 1
Flip 1,0 'Copies our circle from page 1 to page 0
Sleep 25
Next
Print "Now wasn't that neat!"
Print "Push any key."
Flip 1,0 'Copies our text from page 1 to page 0
Sleep
Dialect Differences
- Not available in the -lang qb dialect unless referenced with the alias __Flip.
Differences from QB