>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. well, apparently, you're not doing it "at once". if you do everything within a single iteration of event handling (i.e. before the canvas idle handler is invoked), there is only *one* canvas redraw. otoh, my experience so far is with gtk1.2, and its possible that something horrible has changed in gtk2 (i'll be discovering that in april or so :) however, i believe that this aspect of the canvas is similar in gtk2 as in gtk1. --p _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list