Re: Signals: draw vs. expose_event

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

"M Razhov" <mrazhov mail ru> writes:
> > You should be fine just using expose. 
> > "draw" is a legacy signal, and is gone in GTK 2.
>
> What I am trying to do is damage a rectangle to redraw it
> in the next loop iteration.  I use gtk_widget_queue_draw_area,
> but that doesn't seem to cause any expose_event to show up
> on the queue.  What's the correct way to do it?

queue_draw_area is right, but it's going to cause a draw signal, not
an expose event. (In GTK 2.0 it will cause an expose event.)

Havoc