Hi, "Dennie, Brooke" <BDennie@xxxxxxx> writes: > I have an application that works perfectly, but rendering is > extremely slow (bringing up the application takes over 8 > seconds, a popup window takes a little over 4). While I > realize that it isn't necessarily a guarantee that this is the > problem, stepping through the application with gdb shows that > the bulk of this (4-5 seconds) occurs when I try to show the > top widgets. However, if I take out all changes to the > background colors and fonts, the time drops to 3 seconds to > bring up the applicaton and < 1 second for popup windows. I > don't know if changing these via the rc file is faster, but > that option isn't available to me anyway since I won't know > what colors or fonts to use until run-time. Any ideas on > what's going on? I can supply some code if necessary. > > Thanks for any help! > > Brooke > > PS - I'm working on a sparc ultra 5 that runs Solaris 8, BUT > the application is running from a window where I've ssh'd to a > linux terminal that runs redhat 9 with a 2.4.20-18.9 kernel It would help if you mentioned the version of GTK+ you are using and perhaps which Pango backend is in use. Sven _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list