Re: Freezing GtkTextView

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

"Dongho Shin" <electman acadcorp com> writes:
> 
> Is there any method to freeze and thaw a GtkTextView like
> gtk_text_free() for GtkText?  It needs too much time for GtkTextView
> to load a large file (over 1 minutes for about 80000 lines), and, I
> suppose, it spends most of time to do event handling (for example,
> scrolling).  If the textview is freezed during loading a file, I
> think the time would be reduced dramatically.
> 

Two hints:
 - remove the buffer from the TextView as you fill it
 - fill the buffer in large chunks, not a character
   at a time or short strings at a time

Havoc