On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 12:43 -0700, David J. Andruczyk wrote: > I do this already ahead of time . I ONLY update the labels when > absolutely necessary.. > > As a workaround I moved t GTKEntries which did NOT have the > performance problem, though I can't quite make them appear like a > GtkLabel in all instances, since there is NO other wisget that can > be used to display rapidlychanging text. (it's a textual display > for a realtime datalogger, so fast updating is wanted) if you were working in C++ and using gtkmm, then its actually very easy to do this with just a drawing area. you just create a derived widget with its own pango layout, and a "set text" method. then in the expose method, just tell the pango layout to draw itself within the drawing area. no resize, no width computation, etc. in C, its quite a bit more complex, but can be done. --p _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list