Re: slowness in getting events

[Michael Torrie <torriem gmail com>]

Efraim Yawitz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to port a Windows application to Linux with GTK+ and an
> important part of the GUI is a grid displaying a hex dump of memory which
> must be constantly updated.
>
> I am implementing this using a gtk_drawing_area

You might want to implement this hex dump display as a GtkTreeView
widget, which does lend itself better to displaying tabular data.  The
MVC mechanism by which the TreeView works means that the view
automatically updates itself as the model (your hex data) changes and
emits signals.  You an even have multiple views of the same data if you
need it.

There are also a number of custom widgets that implement
spreadsheet-style grids you can search for.