Albert, thanks for your response. > Since events from the queue are handled sequentially, the time-out event > will only get noticed after the expose event handler has finished. That sounds like good news.
> Did you print entry and exit of both event handlers? Yes - I use print for most debugging really. > The simplest way to try is to add a "time.sleep(5)" in your redraw code. Good idea - I'll try it. > Another way to mess up timing and updating of the window, is to make an X11 > connection over the physical network, preferably encrypted :). :) > Maybe you can do something with the idle event. (after a time-out, setup an > idle event, and on an idle event, set up a timer? Yes, I see. Restart the timer after the expose event handler is done. I'll have a look. > Since you don't have threading, expose and the time-out event handlers will > never be executed at the same time. Perfect. I looked at threading, once, briefly -- and ran away screaming! > Well, why aren't you/they using something intended for direct drawing, eg > SDL? (not entirely sure, I only briefly scanned its API) I don't know. SDL is a good suggestion. I just sort of came into this via pyGTK as my starting point. I don't know if pyCairo can draw to an SDL surface but that's well worth checking out. Thanks for your input. \d _______________________________________________ pygtk mailing list pygtk@daa.com.au http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk Read the PyGTK FAQ: http://www.async.com.br/faq/pygtk/
