[Elementary-dev-community] Why does Cairo.set_source_rgb paint the whole canvas?

I posted this question on StackOverflow, but I'm hoping you guys can help answer it as well: I'm playing around with Clutter/cairo and I'm trying to draw a rectangle; however, it appears that theset_source_rgb is automatically painting the whole canvas with its source, regardless of whether or

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Why does Cairo.set_source_rgb paint the whole canvas?

The effect you observe is caused by the paint call at the bottom. Remove that and it should work fine. But you also have to insert ctx.set_operator(Cairo.Operator.CLEAR); ctx.paint(); ctx.set_operator(Cairo.Operator.OVER); at the very bottom of the draw method which clears the canvas. Clutter