[fxruby-users] Forcing a re-paint

[Lyle Johnson]

On Oct 29, 2008, at 1:40 PM, David Toll wrote:

> I have an FXText window which I would like to force to be repainted  
> immediately, not wait for the lazy re-paint.
>
> I have a call to repaint() for the FXText window and for the FXApp.
>
> The documentation for FXApp.repaint says "Paint all windows marked  
> for repainting.  On return all the applications windows have been  
> painted".  I take that to mean (or hope that it means) that this a  
> synchronous call, and your program should wait for the repaint to  
> complete.  However that clearly is not the case - the window gets  
> repainted some considerable time later.

This question is addressed in the FAQ:

	http://www.fox-toolkit.org/faq.html#CLIENTSERVER

I think you should be able to call update() on the FXText window (to  
mark it as dirty and in need of a repaint), followed by a call to  
FXApp#flush to immediately flush all drawing commands to the display.

> There is no documentation of a repaint method for FXText, nor for  
> its parent FXScrollArea.  FXScrollArea's parent is Object, so I am  
> not at all sure from which class FXText gets a repaint method.

Actually, FXScrollArea's base class is FXComposite, not FXObject:

	http://www.fxruby.org/doc/api/classes/Fox/FXScrollArea.html

Hope this helps,

Lyle

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