This is probably a silly question but are you drawing direct to screen or are you drawing to a buffer page first? A few of my first attempts at moving graphics I drew lines and squares directly to screen. Then I would have to blank out and draw next position. Wasn’t bad but led to some flicker. It didn’t look smooth.

I looked at the guide of allegro.cc and github, but they are not detailed, there are no examples.
thanks anyway

What do you think, which example would be best fitting as a starter template for new projects?

As it's very hard for most people to write the same code over and over.

The wiki's quickstart has barebones code.

Edit: 🐌

Hi everyone
the operating system I use is windows 10 home edition;
the monitor has a frequency of 60 hz, the code I use to check the frequency is:
/******************************************************************************
display = al_create_display(SCREEN_W, SCREEN_H);
if(!display) {
fprintf(stderr, "failed to create display!\n");
return -1;
}

float fl_FPS = al_get_display_refresh_rate(display); // verifica la frequenza di aggiornamento del monitor
if (fl_FPS == 0) {
fl_FPS = 60; // se f_FPS e = 0 allora la frequenza è 60 Hz
}

timer = al_create_timer(1.0 / fl_FPS);
if(!timer) {
fprintf(stderr, "failed to create timer!\n");
}
/*********************************************************************

the excessive speed of animation is an example, but it is not fluid even at low speeds.
I'll look at the guide you suggested.
Thank you

yes the image is tearing.
after reading the allegro.cc guide I added two lines
to the program I had attached:
/***************************************************************
al_set_new_display_option(ALLEGRO_VSYNC, 1, ALLEGRO_REQUIRE);
and
al_set_target_bitmap(al_get_backbuffer(display));
/****************************************************************

source code:

timer = al_create_timer(1.0 / FPS);
if(!timer) {
fprintf(stderr, "failed to create timer!\n");
return -1;
}
al_set_new_display_option(ALLEGRO_VSYNC, 1, ALLEGRO_REQUIRE);
display = al_create_display(SCREEN_W, SCREEN_H);
if(!display) {
fprintf(stderr, "failed to create display!\n");
al_destroy_timer(timer);
return -1;
}
btm_handle_player = al_load_bitmap("handlePl.bmp");
if(!btm_handle_player) {
fprintf(stderr, "failed to create handle bitmap!\n");
}
al_convert_mask_to_alpha(btm_handle_player,al_map_rgb(198,107,87));
al_set_target_bitmap(al_get_backbuffer(display));

/***************************************************************************

but nothing has changed.

moreover the animation is not fluid, that is, the bitmap does a small one
pause between one frame and another.
the bitmap moves as if there was a small lag at each frame.
I hope I was more precise, my English
is a translation of the Italian language made with google translate

Thanks dthompson and Edgar for this. This will help students to get started and I will not have to create a new template every time.

Gotta love integrated graphics

No problem, it's what we do. (though Edgar does it far more.)

He's even making me post again ^^