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updatesEnabled : bool

This property holds whether updates are enabled.

An updates enabled widget receives paint events and has a system background; a disabled widget does not. This also implies that calling update() and repaint() has no effect if updates are disabled.

setUpdatesEnabled() is normally used to disable updates for a short period of time, for instance to avoid screen flicker during large changes. In Qt, widgets normally do not generate screen flicker, but on X11 the server might erase regions on the screen when widgets get hidden before they can be replaced by other widgets. Disabling updates solves this.

Example:
setUpdatesEnabled(false);
bigVisualChanges();
setUpdatesEnabled(true);

Disabling a widget implicitly disables all its children. Enabling respectively enables all child widgets unless they have been explicitly disabled. Re-enabling updates implicitly calls update() on the widget.

Access functions:
bool updatesEnabled () const
void setUpdatesEnabled ( bool enable )