"Jim Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I am new to GTK and have written a program that animates a circle moving
> across a drawing area. I based my program on scribble-simple.c. I clear
> the backing pixmap, draw a circle in the new location on the backing pixmap,
> cause an expose event, and then sleep(1).
>
> The circle moves across the screen, but without a pause. I inserted a
> g_print into my expose event callback to see what was happening. Expose
> event is being called every second, but it doesn't seem like the drawing
> area is being exposed until after the last expose event is called.
>
> Is this part of Gtk's natural behavior, or is there likely an error in the
> code?
sleep() tells the operating system to suspend the process for a second,
so GTK+ can't do anything while your program is sleeping.
What you want to use is a timeout. The tutorial has some information
about using timeouts.
When you do this, things should work properly.
(Actually, if you are calling gtk_widget_draw() as in the tutorial,
then the only reason that things aren't being displayed is that
the queue of events being sent to X isn't being flushed;
Simpy calling gdk_flush() before the sleep() would probably
fix things. But in general, sleep() should be avoided any time
you are using a GUI toolkit.)
Regards,
Owen
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