Gtk Picture not updating

[rafaelmardojai (Rafael Mardojai CM)]

Not a direct answer to your question, but you probably want to implement a custom Gdk.Paintable and do the animation there.

For reference here you can find a simple Gdk.Paintable in Python for a GIF image:

Python: How do you implement a Paintable for GIF animations?

Here’s you paintable updated to work: from gi.repository import GLib, Gdk, GdkPixbuf, GObject class GifPaintable(GObject.Object, Gdk.Paintable): def __init__(self, path): super().__init__() self.animation = GdkPixbuf.PixbufAnimation.new_from_file(path) self.iterator = self.animation.get_iter() self.delay = self.iterator.get_delay_time() self.timeout = GLib.timeout_add(self.delay, self.on_delay) self.invalidate_contents() def on_delay(se…

But in your case I think you can avoid GdkPixbuf and create a Gdk.Texture for each frame.