Re: XForms: more double buffering strangeness

Steve Lamont (spl@szechuan.ucsd.edu)
Thu, 10 Jul 97 11:38:48 PDT

To subscribers of the xforms list from spl@szechuan.ucsd.edu (Steve Lamont) :

> When redrawing an object sometimes another redraw event will be generated,
> and I'll get recursive calls to my Expose handler. ...

Hmmm. A redraw *shouldn't* generate an Expose event -- at least not a
real one. I've never noted whether XForms generates any synthetic
Expose events, though.

> ... Also, if
> an error occurs during the redraw then I had to wait until after exiting the
> Expose handler to call fl_show_alert, since another redraw is triggered when
> the alert box is dismissed.

Yes, this is to be expected.

spl
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