Framerate vs drawing speed

beginners
1

is there a way to control the speed at which the screen draws that is not related to the framerate at which a program runs or related to refreshing the screen by resetting the background?
for instance, you have a static framerate of 24, but you want to draw at a slower rate for a specified duration of time.

thanks,
01

2

you can use the modulo operator with ofGetFrameNum()

void ofApp::draw()
{
	/*
	 1 would draw every frame
	 2 every other frame
	 3 every third frame, etc
	*/
	int speedDivisor = 2;
	
	if(ofGetFrameNum() % speedDivisor != 0))
	{
		return;
	}
	//draw code here
}
3

hi jv,

this is a better implementation than refreshing the background after a specified duration of time. i’ll try it out.

thanks.
01