Re: How to suspend widgets redraw

[Paul Davis <pbd op net>]

>If I have a window with several widgets on it, how do I suspend every widget
>redraw while making changes. I'd like to resume all redrawing until the end
>of such changes.

GTK does this for you already. Redraws don't happen till you return
control to the main event loop. Mostly. Not entirely, but mostly.

Also:

just a quick note to point out that whether you know it or not, the
email program you are using is sending out copies of your mail in both
plain text and HTML formats. increasingly on the net, there are
filters being put in place that silently dump HTML-formatted
email. some mailing lists will not ever accept such posts. as long as
you do this, you are (1) wasting network bandwidth by sending messages
that are typically more than twice as long as they could be (2) making
it harder for people using traditional email readers to read them (3)
risking the chance that people will never see your mail because its
filtered before reaching their email inbox.

--p