return from the event signal emission (%TRUE if the event was handled)
Deprecated: Application and widget code should not handle expose events directly; invalidation should use the #GtkWidget API, and drawing should only happen inside #GtkWidget::draw implementations
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Very rarely-used function. This function is used to emit an expose event on a widget. This function is not normally used directly. The only time it is used is when propagating an expose event to a windowless child widget (gtk_widget_get_has_window() is %FALSE), and that is normally done using gtk_container_propagate_draw().
If you want to force an area of a window to be redrawn, use gdk_window_invalidate_rect() or gdk_window_invalidate_region(). To cause the redraw to be done immediately, follow that call with a call to gdk_window_process_updates().