Re: blinking clists/ctrees

[Markus Lausser <sgop users sourceforge net>]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 08:48:34PM -0700 learfox furry ao net wrote:

> > In my application there is a notebook. It has got serveral pages with clists
> > and ctrees.
> > Now i added a new page with some drawingareas in it. Every second i draw
> > something into the areas no matter whether this notebook page is visible.
> >
> > SInce i added the new page all my clists and ctrees in the other notebook
> > pages began to blink every second (i suppose it is a new expose event ).
> > Why does this appear? and how do i avoid this?
> > Should i only draw into a drawingarea if it is visible?
>
> I think gtk_clist_freeze() should work, call this just before you enter
> your `clist item adding loop'.
>
> When you are done, call gtk_clist_thaw().
>
> Someone mentioned a crash bug when you try this with the GtkCTree(), I
> remember one time encountering it but it apparently went away...

I think you missed the point. I dont do _any_ changes to a clist or a ctree.
All i do is updating some stuff in the drawingareas, that are in another
than the current notebookpage.