[pygtk] How to prevent a widget updating

[Chris Rouch]

I have a table containing buttons containing boxes containing icons
and or labels.

I want to change many of these boxes at once (e.g. replacing the icons
with labels of vice versa). I do this by removing the children and
creating new ones. I don't want to see the changes until they are all
complete.

So, is there a way to prevent the boxes updating until I tell them to?
And if there is, how do I tell them to update once I'm ready?

I had hoped that 

box.freeze_notify()

would do the trick, but it doesn't :-(

I've attached a small example that shows what happens. When the timer
is run after 5 seconds, the display is updated immediately. I'd like
the display to remain unchanged until I tell it to.

Thanks and regards,

Chris

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