Re: painting the DrawingArea

[Rob Benton <rob benton conwaycorp net>]

Paul Davis wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 17:57 +0000, eduardo fiss beloni wrote:
>
> > hello people
> >
> > I must draw white points in a black foreground, but
> > I'm drawing white points in the right places and black
> > points elsewere.
> >
> > can I paint black the Gtk::DrawingArea derived object
> > to make it keeps black "forever" that I don't need to
> > paint it black anymore??? That is: set the
> > Gtk::DrawingArea derived color to black.
>
>
> put simply, you can't.

Every time the expose event gets called on your Gtk::DrawingArea you'll 
need to repaint it.

Are you sure it's you're drawing code that's slowing you down?  I'm 
finishing up a project where I have used a LOT of Gtk::DrawingArea 
widgets and I haven't run into any performance issues with it on my pc 
which is

AMD T-bird 1.2Ghz
768 DDR 2100