>From my own experience I believe the flicker is related to the operating
system. I use GTK 1.2 and have an app that runs under SCO Unix 5.0.5 and
under Solaris 8. I also change the colors of buttons and there is quite a
bit of flicker under SCO but none under Solaris.
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From: Havoc Pennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 23:08
Subject: Re: A slight flicker...any general rules
>
>Antony Stace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> I have a GTK app. It has a window with a table in it. This table has
>> about 20 event boxes in it. If I change the colour or one of these
>> event boxes every 0.5 seconds the whole of the table flickers a little.
>> Can someone suggest any general rules/pointers to avoid flickering.
>>
>
>When you're talking about general flicker throughout GTK, there's not
>too much you can do as an application author. GTK+ 2.0 won't flicker
>at all in this case, but that's not helping you much since you are
>using 1.2.
>
>I do wonder why changing the color causes flicker though; you should
>only see this flicker if you are somehow causing a size recalculation
>on the table.
>
>Havoc
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