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Gentle People:

Special thanks to the folks that wrote the GTK and Cairo Tutorials.
They were very helpful.

I am considering an application where I would like to use GTK+-2.0 / Cairo
to produce a Cross Hare Cursor, which moves over a graph, which is drawn by
Cairo, as you move the mouse in real time.

I have been experimenting with the motion_notify_event and masks shown below:
gtk_widget_add_events (window, GDK_MOTION_NOTIFY);
gtk_widget_add_events (window, GDK_POINTER_MOTION_MASK );
gtk_widget_add_events (window, GDK_POINTER_MOTION_HINT_MASK );
g_signal_connect(window, "motion_notify_event",
G_CALLBACK(Motion_Notify_Function), NULL);

I have easily come up with basic examples that work somewhat for a while, BUT they
seem to first hang up (Stop processing motion events and freeze) and then crash with a
segfault!!!

It seems like the programs crash because they receive too many motion events too
quickly! Is this possible? Is there a motion event queue that could fill up and crash???

To experiment I have changed to an on_expose_event handler to an empty
function {} to reduce the workload to the minimum and this did not help!

Am I using the correct approach? Should I be looking at other events and masks?
I am concerned that I may be doung this the hard way and that is why I am having
trouble.

I can post more example code if necessary.

Should I upgrade my project to GTK3???

Thanks for you help and consideration.
Thomas Dineen