On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 03:03:25PM -0800, Micah Carrick wrote: > I have a function that will take some time to run.. actually, it forks > out another process which can take up to say 4 seconds. I want to > display a modal dialog during this time, or perhaps just a statusbar > message. In any case, whatever I do does not show up until AFTER the > process is finished (and thus only shows up for an isntance). > > I thought I could maybe create a global flag that is set right before > gtk_widget_show() , and is cleared once the "show" signal occurs for > that widget, and then have an infinate loop waiting for that flag to be > clear before calling that process. This bothers me because of the > infinate loop and because it just seems like there's likely a better > way. Like is therea function call that allows pending redraws or > whatever to complete before continuing? Yes, it is: gtk_main_iteration_do() (see also documentation of gtk_events_pending()). Yeti -- That's enough. _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
