Re: Canvas freeze/thaw

["Iain" <tigermilk btinternet com>]

> In my dealings with the canvas I've come to a point where I would like to
add
> the feature of freezing and thawing to the canvas.  The reason is that I'm
doing a
> number of object creations and transforms at once, and the canvas displays
> these actions before they are finished.  Having the canvas updated mid
> transformation degrades the total user experience.
>
> How I plan to implement the freeze capability is adding a conditional
check to
> the do_update() to stop the redraw of the canvas is the conditional is
true.
> When the conditional is false the update will occur as planned.  Upon thaw
the
> only action is a gnome_canvas_request_update() call.
>
> The reason the conditional must go into do_update() is that there may
already
> be queued updates pending and I want to stop those from occuring.
>
> Does anybody have any objections to this?

Does freezing and thawing the GtkLayout of the canvas not work?
iain