Yes it is idle a lot. Whenever your not moving the mouse or interacting with the GUI it should be sitting in main GTK event loop. On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 17:31 +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > Douglas Vechinski <douglas.vechinski@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > The problem I am having is that depending upon the size of the drawing > > area window, the expose event handler (to redraw the scene) is not > > called after I issue a gdk_window_invalidate_rect. > > Does your application ever become idle? The invalidated areas are only > ever processed if your program returns to the main loop and becomes > idle. > > > Sven > _______________________________________________ > > gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list