Re: forcing immediate redraw on widget

[Gus Koppel <gtk spamkiller bytechase cx>]

Marc Santhoff wrote:

> I wrote a little testing program in C to narrow the error area. It
> shows the following behaviour:
>
> - If the bg color in the GtkRcStyle is only changed and assigned,
> nothing happens
> - if a resizing of the window is involved, the color is shown
> immediately
> - minimizing and restoring shows color change immediately, too

What about the method all my previous writings were about? What about
gtk_widget_queue_draw () (with a different target than your GtkHScale)?

> Summarizing I have to do a resize request on the window to get the
> desired effect. In my opinion this is at least a design flaw.

It would be, if there were really no other way to invalidate a widget in
GTK+ 1.2. But I doubt that.

> My next goal is to do a request with no size change and, if it does
> not do anything, do to request with a minimal change and hope i get no
> flickering. The window must stay in it's original size filling up the
> complete 640x480  screen.

You should keep your focus on trying to invalidate the particular widget
which it is all about. As I mentioned earlier, you will not want to
invalidate the entire window. Especially not by resize requests.