Re: forcing window repaints

[Olexiy Avramchenko <olexiy ctech cn ua>]

Neale Pickett wrote:

> I'm trying to benchmark GdkImage, and I'm having trouble getting the
> window to update.  It seems like it will update as the result of an
> expose event, but that's it.  Obviously I'm missing something; can
> anyone be so kind as to tell me what?
>
> TIA, Neale
>
> Here's the program I'm using:
>  
...

> gboolean
> noise(gpointer data)
> {
>  static int   offset = 0;
>  struct crap *c      = (struct crap *)data;
>
>  ((char *)c->d_image->mem)[offset++] = 0xff;
>
>  gtk_widget_show(c->image);
Put gtk_widget_queue_draw(c->image); here instead. gtk_widget_show() 
just turns on widget's visibility and your widget is already done this 
by gtk_widget_show_all() call on its container.

>  return TRUE;
> }
...

   Olexiy