Another progress gauge (maybe general widget?) issue

I've switched my daily-use XEmacs over to 21.2, and observed that the progress bar seems to update the whole widget, including text, every time the bar is extended. (XEmacs is running on a relatively slow, loaded machine, across a 10Mbps LAN, and the local X server is XF86 4.0, which seems to have some slow painting issues on my workstation.) This is not what I would call widget-like behavior, because there should be no exposes being generated: the widget is the top window in the stack. Is this a problem with Falk's progress bar widget, or with XEmacs? The buffer tabs widget may have similar behavior in the sense that the whole thing often gets redrawn just because I change messages in VM (but this may be associated with VM's use of a presentation buffer separate from the folder buffer---it may very well be that the buffer list gets "dirtied" from the point of view of the buffers tabs). OTOH, the tabs widget often seems to be already on screen while the rest of the frame gets redrawn. uname -a: Linux turnbull 2.2.18pre2 #1 Mon Sep 4 19:28:49 JST 2000 i586 unknown /coda/Projects/XEmacs/21.2-HEAD/configure '--srcdir=/coda/Projects/XEmacs/21.2-HEAD' '--prefix=/playpen/gnu' '--exec-prefix=/playpen/gnu/plat' '--with-mule' '--with-xim=xlib' '--with-xfs' XEmacs 21.2-b42 "Poseidon" configured for `i586-pc-linux'. Compilation / Installation: Source code location: /coda/Projects/XEmacs/21.2-HEAD Installation prefix: /playpen/gnu Operating system description file: `s/linux.h' Machine description file: `m/intel386.h' Compiler: gcc -g -O3 -Wall -Wno-switch -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wmissing-prototypes -Wshadow Relocating allocator for buffers: no GNU version of malloc: yes - Using Doug Lea's new malloc from the GNU C Library. Window System: Compiling in support for the X window system: - X Windows headers location: /usr/X11R6/include - X Windows libraries location: /usr/X11R6/lib - Handling WM_COMMAND properly. Compiling in support for the Athena widget set: - Athena headers location: X11/Xaw - Athena library to link: Xaw Using Lucid menubars. Using Lucid scrollbars. Using Athena dialog boxes. Using Athena native widgets. TTY: Compiling in support for ncurses. Images: Compiling in support for GIF images (builtin). Compiling in support for XPM images. Compiling in support for PNG images. Compiling in support for JPEG images. Compiling in support for TIFF images. Compiling in support for X-Face message headers. Sound: Compiling in support for sound (native). Databases: Compiling in support for Berkeley database. Internationalization: Compiling in support for Mule (multi-lingual Emacs). Compiling in support for XIM (X11R5+ I18N input method). - Using raw Xlib to provide XIM support. - Using XFontSet to provide bilingual menubar. Compiling in support for Canna on Mule. Mail: Compiling in support for "dot-locking" mail spool file locking method. Other Features: Compiling in support for dynamic shared object modules. Compiling in support for extra debugging code. WARNING: --------------------------------------------------------- WARNING: Compiling in support for runtime error checking. WARNING: XEmacs will run noticeably more slowly as a result. WARNING: Error checking is on by default for XEmacs beta releases. WARNING: --------------------------------------------------------- -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."