I was using a technique I found in a book that seemed weird anyway, so I went back to just getting the time at the beginning and end of display() and subtracting them.
This yielded a result of 0 (zero) ms passing between the two points. That still seems a little weird, but that's what I got. Then again, I don't really know jack about OpenGL, so maybe that IS reasonable.
The clock in your computer isn't accurate or fast enough to generate a time delta for one frame of drawing nothing.
What you should do is create a frame counter that you increment everytime you draw and after say .25 seconds compute the FPS using your frame counter with an equation like the following.
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| time = getTime()
timeDelta = oldTime - time
if(timeDelta > .25s)
{
fps = frameCount * (1.0s/timeDelta)
frameCount = 0
oldTime = time
} |
