On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 11:52:19AM -0400, Melvin Newman wrote: > Basicaly I have a button that when pressed is supposed to connect to a > remote server. As this client is trying to connect to the server, it is > supposed to update the user interface by outputting a text character to a > text output box. > ... While it does not answer the original question, have a look at GIOChannels, they allow quite native integration of similar operation into the main loop. That is, instead of running the main loop explicitly by hand, one plugs the I/O into it as another event source. Yeti -- Whatever. _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list