Sure.  2D and 3D displays in the MASON tarball on the website can be  
updated every N steps -- it's there in the GUI.  On SVN there's a new  
version of both which have more options.  You can update every N  
steps, or every N seconds, or never, or always.

At present this isn't exposed to the developer, but on the SVN version  
there's a function called shouldUpdate() which handles things and can  
be overridden -- it's called every step (at least), asking whether a  
repaint should be requested, and returns true or false.  I should get  
it set up so you can set it up programmatically without having to do  
an override.

Sean

On Jun 3, 2011, at 12:18 PM, Sam Brett wrote:

> Is there an easy way to prevent repainting of the displays for every
> timestep? For what I'm doing, updating every timestep is not needed  
> and
> would save a ton of time I'm thinking.