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diff --git a/doc/ScintillaDoc.html b/doc/ScintillaDoc.html index 215f01fc3..93b9a9e70 100644 --- a/doc/ScintillaDoc.html +++ b/doc/ScintillaDoc.html @@ -3312,7 +3312,14 @@ struct Sci_TextToFind { These messages turn buffered drawing on or off and report the buffered drawing state. Buffered drawing draws each line into a bitmap rather than directly to the screen and then copies the bitmap to the screen. This avoids flickering although it does take longer. The default is for - drawing to be buffered.</p> + drawing to be buffered on Win32 and GTK+ and to not be buffered on Cocoa and Qt. + Buffered drawing is not supported on Cocoa. + </p> + + <p>Current platforms perform window buffering so it is almost always better for this option to be turned off. + For Win32 and GTK+, client code should turn off buffering at initialisation. + There are some older platforms and unusual modes where buffering may still be useful. + </p> <p><b id="SCI_SETPHASESDRAW">SCI_SETPHASESDRAW(int phases)</b><br /> <b id="SCI_GETPHASESDRAW">SCI_GETPHASESDRAW</b><br /> |