On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 22:16:12 -0500, Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >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 > I'm moving, removing, and adding a ton of stuff around the screen at once, and I need it to seem like everything moves, removes, and adds at once (it's one big jump/change, not a sequence of smaller ones). I am seeing some stuff move before other stuff and so the effect isn't what I'm looking for. _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
