How do I eliminate flickering for "for loops"?

[Vomirak]

So this assignment im working on is due monday, but I have a problem with getting View.Update to work properly. I've played around with View.Update and i can't get it to work how I want.
I have an object that has 7 layers of shapes/code on it, and whenever i try to make him move in a random direction, the object just flickers, this is what I'm doing to make him move,

for x : 0..200
draw blah blah blah %%%original shape%%%
delay (5)
draw blah blah blah %%%eraser that follows original shape%%%
end for

What am i doing wrong?

[Insectoid]

This is what your code should look like

code:

for x:0..200     draw blah blah blah     View.Update     delay (five)     erase stuff end for

The general order of operations is draw stuff, view.update, delay, erase stuff.

[Aange10]

Here's an example, aswell

Turing:

View.Set ("offscreenonly") for i : 1 .. 5     cls     drawfillbox (10, 0, 40, 40, (11 + i))     View.Update     delay (1000) end for

[Beastinonyou]

Aange10 @ Sat Nov 05, 2011 9:01 pm wrote:

Turing:

View.Set ("offscreenonly")

I bet this is the line of code he's missing from his program. Without this, View.Update does nothing.

[Velocity]

You can add View.Set ("offscreenonly")
^^^
at the beginning of your loop

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and ...
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View.UpdateArea (0, 0, maxx, maxy)

^^^
at the end of your loop