>So, say in Gimp for example, when does the drawing area widget emit the >map event? whenever the window is made visible on the screen after it was created or unmapped. by contrast, expose_event is emitted for any necessary redraw. you generally don't need map_event - its useful for obscure hacks and not a lot else. --p _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list