Re: Problem with gtk_widget_queue_draw()

[Maciej Katafiasz <mnews22 wp pl>]

Dnia 20-10-2004, śro o godzinie 01:30 +0200, simkin simkin napisał:
> I was doing a gtk app for showing an armonic simple
> movement. The interface was easy to do but when i
> tryed to make the animation of the movement in a
> drawingarea I found some problems. I created an extra
> thread for the animation and put the gdk_draw's on it
> but when i compiled it i realised that the pixmap
> wasn't being updated. (i thought that gdk_draw calls
> would make an expose_event). So, I tryed to solve this
> problem by using gtk_widget_queue_draw to redraw the
> drawingarea each time i needed but it don't works very
> well. I want the DrawingArea to redraw sixty times
> each second more or less but i cant make it since the
> refresh with queue_draw() feels very slow, like 2
> frames per sec :S
> how can i solve this?
> there is another way to get the same effect?

Before we get into details: you did gdk_threads_init() and do use
gdk_threads_enter()/leave() around any calls to GTK+ drawing routines,
right?

Cheers,
Maciej

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