Re: An odd DrawingArea problem

[Peter Krueger <pkrueger appss de>]

On Mon, 3 May 2004, Daniel Haude wrote:
> > When an expose event occurs GTK will clear the affected region with the
> > background color or background pixmap right before your applications
> > expose callback is called.
>
> This is actually not true; gtk clears the drawingara *after* I've
> plastered something on top of it using SDL (my SDL-drawn content is only
> visible as a short flash, or longer when I call sleep() before returning
> from the expose_event callback). Note that GTK doesn't know about the
> contents of the drawingarea's window since I'm not using GDK to draw on
> it.
Hi Daniel!
I'm wondering why GTK should clear the widget *after* your application
received the expose-event. I never experienced such a behaviour and it
wouldn't make any sense. Could it be that you returned FALSE in your
expose-event-handler?

Regards,
                     Peter
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