gdkWindowBeginPaintRegion {RGtk2} | R Documentation

## gdkWindowBeginPaintRegion

### Description

Indicates that you are beginning the process of redrawing `region`. A backing store (offscreen buffer) large enough to contain `region` will be created. The backing store will be initialized with the background color or background pixmap for `window`. Then, all drawing operations performed on `window` will be diverted to the backing store. When you call `gdkWindowEndPaint`, the backing store will be copied to `window`, making it visible onscreen. Only the part of `window` contained in `region` will be modified; that is, drawing operations are clipped to `region`.

### Usage

    gdkWindowBeginPaintRegion(object, region)

### Arguments

``object`` | a `GdkWindow`
``region`` | region you intend to draw to

### Details

The net result of all this is to remove flicker, because the user sees the finished product appear all at once when you call `gdkWindowEndPaint`. If you draw to `window` directly without calling `gdkWindowBeginPaintRegion`, the user may see flicker as individual drawing operations are performed in sequence. The clipping and background-initializing features of `gdkWindowBeginPaintRegion` are conveniences for the programmer, so you can avoid doing that work yourself.

When using GTK+, the widget system automatically places calls to `gdkWindowBeginPaintRegion` and `gdkWindowEndPaint` around emissions of the expose_event signal. That is, if you're writing an expose event handler, you can assume that the exposed area in `GdkEventExpose` has already been cleared to the window background, is already set as the clip region, and already has a backing store. Therefore in most cases, application code need not call `gdkWindowBeginPaintRegion`. (You can disable the automatic calls around expose events on a widget-by-widget basis by calling `gtkWidgetSetDoubleBuffered`.)

If you call this function multiple times before calling the matching `gdkWindowEndPaint`, the backing stores are pushed onto a stack. `gdkWindowEndPaint` copies the topmost backing store onscreen, subtracts the topmost region from all other regions in the stack, and pops the stack. All drawing operations affect only the topmost backing store in the stack. One matching call to `gdkWindowEndPaint` is required for each call to `gdkWindowBeginPaintRegion`.

### Author(s)

Derived by RGtkGen from GTK+ documentation

[Package RGtk2 version 2.20.36.3 Index]