Re: Delaying redraws?

[Rena <hyperhacker gmail com>]

On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 3:02 AM, David Nečas <yeti physics muni cz> wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 08:18:58PM -0400, Rena wrote:
> > I have a window with a large number of GtkEntry and GtkCheckButton
> > displaying stats,
>
> ‘Displaying stats’ sounds a bit suspicious because entry and check
> button are input widgets.
>
> > Is it possible to speed
> > this up, maybe by asking GTK not to redraw the widgets until I'm done
> > updating them all?
>
> Anyway, this is what happens normally.  When you change the widget
> state/content a redraw is queued.  The redraws are then processed when
> the Gtk+ main loops gets to run.
>
> Regards,
>
> Yeti
Well the idea was eventually you'd be able to edit them too (and checkboxes
seem ideal for displaying binary values). Anyway I found the issue wasn't
that GTK was taking a long time to redraw, but that lgi was taking a long
time to retrieve the widgets.

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