Re: drawing area widget repainting

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

lost <lost paradise net nz> writes:
> How do I force a drawing area widget to redraw a sub-section of itself
> and clear the area to the default background colour at the same time?
>
> there is:
>       gtk_widget_queue_draw_area(); 
> which forces the redraw, but dosn't clear the exposed area first

In GTK 2 (1.3.x for now) it does do this, as an aside.
 
> At present, I'm clearing the area by drawing a filled rectangle over it
> in the same colour as the default background, but I'd like to find the
> proper method

gdk_window_clear_area() is one approach, anyway.

Havoc