On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 18:14:42 +0100, David J. Singer <doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > But surely for even a moderately complicated "drawing area", you would > need to create and maintain a backing pixmap to speed up the exposures. Actually not: gnomecanvas uses a variety of techniques to make drawing just the exposed part of the display efficient. Programs based on it (like dia) have very large scrolling areas that repaint quickly without a large backing pixmap (unless I've misunderstood your point, in which case sorry). _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list