Re: How to repaint widgets??

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Carlos Pereira <carlos pehoe civil ist utl pt> writes:
> Could someone explain the differences between
> gtk_widget_draw(drawing_area, &area) and 
> gtk_widget_queue_draw(drawing_area)?
>
> Both seem to work fine for me, I am wondering what
> the >queue< word means in gtk_widget_queue_draw

gtk_widget_draw() simply invokes the draw virtual method on the
widget, immediately.

gtk_widget_queue_draw() schedules the widget to be redrawn in an idle
handler. 

The practical difference is that you can call queue_draw() several
times and still get only one draw when you return to the event loop,
while calling gtk_widget_draw() will draw once every time you call
it. Also, gtk_widget_draw() is deprecated in GTK 2.0, and queue_draw()
is not. So you want to use queue_draw() pretty much always.

Havoc