[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 02/11] sdl2: stop flickering

[Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>]

Optimizing updates by copying the dirty rectangle
only do not work because of double-buffering.

Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
---
 ui/sdl2-2d.c | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/ui/sdl2-2d.c b/ui/sdl2-2d.c
index d0b340f..191ee3b 100644
--- a/ui/sdl2-2d.c
+++ b/ui/sdl2-2d.c
@@ -45,10 +45,23 @@ void sdl2_2d_update(DisplayChangeListener *dcl,
         return;
     }
 
+    /*
+     * SDL2 seems to do some double-buffering, and trying to only
+     * update the changed areas results in only one of the two buffers
+     * being updated.  Which flickers alot.  So lets not try to be
+     * clever do a full update every time ...
+     */
+#if 0
     rect.x = x;
     rect.y = y;
     rect.w = w;
     rect.h = h;
+#else
+    rect.x = 0;
+    rect.y = 0;
+    rect.w = surface_width(surf);
+    rect.h = surface_height(surf);
+#endif
 
     SDL_UpdateTexture(scon->texture, NULL, surface_data(surf),
                       surface_stride(surf));
-- 
1.8.3.1