Can this be made better?? Check the attachment.

[toughcoder]

Hello Every1,
I have attached a sample VB project of what i'm doing. Itz actually a Arkanoid clone in the making. Somehow, i just cant make the stuff look good. The paddle is jerky, and if i start moving it 1 pixel at a time, itz too slow. What to do. I'm a newbie at game programming. Plz help...

[golgo13sf]

doesn't seem too jerky to me

p4 1.8ghz
win NT 4
ati rage 128 pro II

control needs some help though

[BramVandenbon]

it works fine with me, no complaints at all ...
but the log can't move accross the full width of the screen. There's still a spot on the right of my screen that can't be reached.

well, good luck :) looks nice to me

[toughcoder]

Hello Every1,
Well, I have got over the problem. My one also works good now. Actually I have a AMD Duron 1100 MHz with 256 RAM, it seems ok now. Actually instead of redrawing the whole screen for each screen, now I have just erased the previous position of the bat.
And Bram, actually the bat shouldnt touch the far end of the screen. I'm still working on it and will release the final version if ur interested...:p

[BramVandenbon]

Interested for sure :)

you have a nice piece of clean coding ! ;)

very nice

[toughcoder]

Hello every1,
well Bram, thanx for ur interest. I'll surely post the stuff here. By the way, i know why the stuff was jerky on my system when i posted this stuff. Actually i was listening to some songs on Media Player, and tested the code then. That made it appear jerky. If i listen or watch a movie on MP, the code is jerky. Otherwise its fine even if MP is open, as long as ur not using it. Can u figure out why this is happening and what should be done to avoid it.....:confused:

[BramVandenbon]

I'm not sure ... would it have something to do with the visual effects of windows mediaplayer ?