On Thursday 09 September 2004 08:58, Grossert Alexander EXT wrote: > OS: Solaris 9, gtk: version 1.2 > > I have written a GUI using 2 message windows to show the progress of the > program. Most of the functions connected to a signal from a button contain > some sleep() calls between the message outputs. But when pressing a button > for a short period nothing happens and then suddenly all messages are > printed out together. > > It seems to me the main application window is updated only after the > function called by the corresponding signal has finished execution. > > Can anyone tell me how to force an update of the application window while > executing the called function? http://www.gtk.org/faq/#AEN602 In Gtk-1.2 it would probably be something like: while (gtk_events_pending()) gtk_main_iteration(); If you want a certain function to be called in X seconds, use gtk_timeout_add() and return FALSE in the timeout callback function, so that it only gets run once. Cheers -Tim _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
