Slight pause/delay when moving

Question

I've been working on this little framework for my game today and realized that moving delays when moving around. I've used SFML before and have had the same problem, but never bothered to fix it. I'm wondering if anyone has had a similar issue and has found a solution. Here's an example of the code which is giving me the slight pause in movement:

int main(){
    sf::RenderWindow window (sf::VideoMode(640, 480), "Window");
    //window.setVerticalSyncEnabled(true);

    sf::Texture tex;
    tex.loadFromFile("Assets/Textures/player.png");
    sf::Sprite s;
    s.setTexture(tex);

    while (window.isOpen()){
        sf::Event event;

        while (window.pollEvent(event)){
            if (event.type == sf::Event::Closed)
                window.close();
        }

        if (sf::Keyboard::isKeyPressed(sf::Keyboard::Right)){
            s.move(0.01f, 0.0f);
        }

        window.clear();
        window.draw(s);
        window.display();
    }
}

The delay/pause/whatever I'm experience is very slight but I can notice it and it's really bugging me. Just seeing the slight break in movement when none of the values alter makes my programming mind extremely sad.

Answer 1

I've had the same type of quirk, and after some experimentation I've found that it's caused by the while (window.pollEvent(event)) loop.

I re-worked my method just to read the message

(window.pollEvent(event));

at the beginning of the

while (window.isOpen()) {

and then go from there. This causes the frame rate to skyrocket, and you'd definitely want to put in a tick System, but unfortunately I'm in class at the moment. When I get home I'll post my code snippet.