Re: GTK/GDK equivalent to UpdateWindow() ?

[Lance Dillon <riffraff169 yahoo com>]

----- Original Message ----
> From: "jcupitt gmail com" <jcupitt gmail com>
> To: John Emmas <johne53 tiscali co uk>
> Cc: gtk-app-devel-list <gtk-app-devel-list gnome org>
> Sent: Sun, July 4, 2010 12:51:52 PM
> Subject: Re: GTK/GDK equivalent to UpdateWindow() ?
>
> On 4 July 2010 16:50, John Emmas <
> href="mailto:johne53 tiscali co uk">johne53 tiscali co uk> wrote:
>
> operation being processed.  Neither of those is quite what I need.  I'm looking 
> for is a function that will force a window to be repainted at once, before any 
> other pending events get processed.

There's 
> gdk_window_process_updates():

http://library.gnome.org/devel/gdk/stable/gdk-Windows.html#gdk-window-process-updates

But 
> I'm not certain is does much any more. Generally, you just paint
in the 
> expose handler and nowhere else, and calls like this 
> are
unnecessary.

What are you trying to achieve? Perhaps there's some 
> other way to get
the effect you 
> need.

John

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Maybe this is what you want?


http://library.gnome.org/devel/gdk/stable/GdkDisplay.html#gdk-display-flush
http://library.gnome.org/devel/gdk/stable/gdk-Windows.html#gdk-window-flush

This one is possible, but the others may be more useful or relevant:

http://library.gnome.org/devel/gdk/stable/gdk-General.html#gdk-flush