>Is it possible to prevent the gnomecanvas from redrawing itself on the >screen? Something like a freeze and a thaw? why would you do that? the canvas is redrawn only in an idle hander so that all the updates and changes you do don't cause any redrawing at that time. everything is deferred until there are no more events to handle. if you want a longer term freeze/thaw, i don't know of anything, but you could make the canvas widget insensitive. --p _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list