Screen('Flip')

Psychtoolbox › Screen.{mex*,dll} subfunction

Flip front and back display surfaces in sync with vertical retrace and return
completion timestamps.
"windowPtr" is the id of the onscreen window whose content should be shown at
flip time. "when" specifies when to flip: If set to zero (default), it will flip
on the next possible video retrace. If set to a value when > 0, it will flip at
the first video retrace after system time 'when' has been reached. "dontclear"
If set to 1, flip will not clear the framebuffer after Flip - this allows
incremental drawing of stimuli. The default is zero, which will clear the
framebuffer to background color after each flip. A value of 2 will prevent Flip
from doing anything to the framebuffer after flip. This leaves the job of
setting up the buffer to you - the framebuffer is in an undefined state after
flip. "dontsync" If set to zero (default), Flip will sync to the vertical
retrace and will pause execution of your script until the Flip has happened. If
set to 1, Flip will still synchronize stimulus onset to the vertical retrace,
but will *not* wait for the flip to happen: Flip returns immediately and all
returned timestamps are invalid. A value of 2 will cause Flip to show the
stimulus *immediately* without waiting/syncing to the vertical retrace.
"multiflip" defaults to zero: If set to a value greater than zero, Flip will
flip *all* onscreen windows instead of just the specified one. This allows to
synchronize stimulus onset on multiple displays, e.g., for multidisplay stereo
setups or haploscopes. You need to (somehow) synchronize all attached displays
for this to operate tear-free. Flip (optionally) returns a high-precision
estimate of the system time (in seconds) when the actual flip has happened in
the return argument 'VBLTimestamp'. An estimate of Stimulus-onset time is
returned in 'StimulusOnsetTime'. Beampos is the position of the monitor scanning
beam when the time measurement was taken (useful for correctness tests).
FlipTimestamp is a timestamp taken at the end of Flip's execution. Use the
difference between FlipTimestamp and VBLTimestamp to get an estimate of how long
Flips execution takes. This is useful to get a feeling for the timing error if
you try to sync script execution to the retrace, e.g., for triggering
acquisition devices like EEG, fMRI, or for starting playback of a sound.
"Missed" indicates if the requested presentation deadline for your stimulus has
been missed. A negative value means that dead- lines have been satisfied.
Positive values indicate a deadline-miss. The automatic detection of
deadline-miss is not fool-proof - it can report false positives and also false
negatives, although it should work fairly well with most experimental setups. If
you are picky about timing, please use the provided timestamps or additional
methods to exercise your own tests.

###See also: DrawingFinished WaitUntilAsyncFlipCertain AsyncFlipBegin AsyncFlipCheckEnd AsyncFlipEnd Flip