-- | Display mode is for drawing a static picture. module Graphics.Gloss.Interface.IO.Display ( module Graphics.Gloss.Data.Display , module Graphics.Gloss.Data.Picture , module Graphics.Gloss.Data.Color , displayIO , Controller (..)) where import Graphics.Gloss.Data.Display import Graphics.Gloss.Data.Controller import Graphics.Gloss.Data.Picture import Graphics.Gloss.Data.Color import Graphics.Gloss.Internals.Interface.Display import Graphics.Gloss.Internals.Interface.Backend -- | Open a new window and display an infrequently updated picture. -- -- Once the window is open you can use the same commands as with @display@. -- -- * This wrapper is intended for mostly static pictures that do not -- need to be updated more than once per second. For example, the picture -- could show network activity over the last minute, a daily stock price, -- or a weather forecast. If you want to show a real-time animation where -- the frames are redrawn more frequently then use the `animate` wrapper -- instead. -- -- * The provided picture generating action will be invoked, and the -- display redrawn in two situation: -- 1) We receive a display event, like someone clicks on the window. -- 2) When `controllerSetRedraw` has been set, some indeterminate time -- between the last redraw, and one second from that. -- -- * Note that calling `controllerSetRedraw` indicates that the picture should -- be redrawn, but does not cause this to happen immediately, due to -- limitations in the GLUT and GLFW window managers. The display runs on -- a one second timer interrupt, and if there have been no display events -- we need to wait for the next timer interrupt before redrawing. -- Having the timer interrupt period at 1 second keeps the CPU usage -- due to the context switches at under 1%. -- -- * Also note that the picture generating action is called for every display -- event, so if the user pans the display then it will be invoked at 10hz -- or more during the pan. If you are generating the picture by reading some -- on-disk files then you should track when the files were last updated -- and cache the picture between updates. Caching the picture avoids -- repeatedly reading and re-parsing your files during a pan. Consider -- storing your current picture in an IORef, passing an action that just -- reads this IORef, and forking a new thread that watches your files for updates. -- displayIO :: Display -- ^ Display mode. -> Color -- ^ Background color. -> IO Picture -- ^ Action to produce the current picture. -> (Controller -> IO ()) -- ^ Callback to take the display controller. -> IO () displayIO dis backColor makePicture eatController = displayWithBackend defaultBackendState dis backColor makePicture eatController