Why is my application's CPU usage always > 50%

[wysota]

What do you use the setPixmap call for in the paint event? You should never do that. If all you want is to change the pixmap to some other pixmap then do it when the actual change happens - use setPixmap() then and it will call update() which will call your paint event.

[barrygp]

Thanks.. I see your point.. What I need is another method to do what I now have paintEvent do... then just call this new method when I need to update. Seems easy now.. didn't seem easy before :-) .. Thanks again.