Immediate mode (computer graphics), a graphical rendering mode
Immediate mode GUI, GUI or widget toolkit implemented using immediate mode style
Direct mode, an operational mode for interpreters
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not preclude the use of double-buffering. Immediatemode is an alternative approach. Historically, retained mode has been the dominant style in GUI libraries;...
provides two ways for developers to draw 3D graphics: immediatemode and retained mode. In immediatemode, graphics commands are issued directly into the graphics...
of an application Immediatemode (computer graphics), a graphic library where commands produce direct rendering on the display Modes (Unix), permissions...
In computing, direct or immediatemode in an interactive programming system is the immediate execution of commands, statements, or expressions. In many...
26, 1996). Direct3D initially implemented an "immediatemode" 3D API and layered upon it a "retained mode" 3D API. Both types of API were already offered...
15 release cycle, Apple added the Canvas element, adding support for Immediatemode drawing and performant 2D drawing. During WWDC 2022 and the iOS 16 release...
design is that the amount of memory and bandwidth is reduced compared to immediatemode rendering systems that draw the entire frame at once. This has made...
OpenGL (deprecated in OpenGL 3.0) has support for triangle strips using immediatemode and the glBegin(), glVertex*(), and glEnd() functions. Newer versions...
Redcode and some other dialects of assembly language, # is used to denote immediatemode addressing, e.g., LDA #10, which means "load accumulator A with the...
list functionality are called retained mode systems, while systems that do not are as opposed to immediatemode systems. In OpenGL, display lists are useful...
separated into a low layer immediatemode API and layered upon it the original scene graph API which was afterwards called retained mode API. Direct3D shipped...
drivers. BIT in the 65C02 adds immediatemode, zero page indexed by X and absolute indexed by X addressing. Immediatemode addressing is particularly convenient...
the Longs Peak proposal. Instead of removing all immediatemode and fixed functionality (non-shader mode), the spec included them as deprecated features...
from the 1976 manual unless otherwise noted. Referred to as "executive" mode in the documentation. SCR scratch, equivalent to MS NEW LIST RUN LOAD SAVE...
32-bit versions of this addressing modeImmediatemode Data stored in the instruction, e.g. "#400" Quick immediatemode 3-bit unsigned (or 8-bit signed with...
protocol of W with an asynchronous protocol and the display lists with immediatemode graphics to make X version 1. X became the first windowing system environment...
accumulator (1); indirect,x and indirect,y (2); and immediate (2). Absolute mode is a general-purpose mode. Branch instructions use a signed 8-bit offset relative...
etc.) to the video device for non-immediate-mode rendering. VBOs offer substantial performance gains over immediatemode rendering primarily because the...
re-render the scene. Canvas objects, on the other hand, are drawn in immediatemode. In the canvas example above, the rectangle draw operation modifies...
VCVT instructions to convert between scalar, float and double, adds immediatemode to VMOV such that constants can be loaded into FPU registers. VFPv3-D16...
built-in source-code editor that can perform instructions in direct or immediatemode, what they termed a conversational user interface. JOSS was initially...
Corporation (DEC) VAX, treat registers and literal or immediate constants as just another addressing mode. Others, such as the IBM System/360 and its successors...
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