BTW, I'm writing towards GTK+ 2.4. On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 02:16:52PM -0400, Stephen Bach wrote: > Hello, > > I have a container which periodically loses some of its widgets and gains > others, sometimes on the order of hundreds. The changeover happens all at > once (i.e. there's a big loop which does all the adding and destroying), but > it's still pretty ugly and slow because sometimes many repaints are done. I > only care about the final repaint. > > Is there some way that I can prevent the intervening repaints from happening? > I've tested hiding and reshowing the container, and it is indeed much faster, > but of course I don't want the user to see the container disappear. Ideally > I'd have the "before" painting sit until the widget switch-over is done, and > then display the "after" painting. > > I was hoping gdk_window_freeze_updates() and gdk_window_thaw_updates() would > help, but they don't seem to do anything. As a test I even tried freezing > the root gdk window right before calling gtk_main() (and after showing its > widget), but the program proceeded normally. Maybe I'm not understanding > what these functions are for. > > Any insight would be very welcome. > > Thanks > > _______________________________________________ > > gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list > > _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
