On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 04:42:33AM -0500, ashok@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > void > on_button1_clicked (GtkButton *button, > gpointer user_data) > { > GtkWidget *stat; > guint cont; From here... > stat=lookup_widget(window1,"statusbar1"); > > cont=gtk_statusbar_get_context_id(stat,"context"); > gtk_statusbar_push(stat,cont,"statusbar one"); > system("find /home/ashok -name abc -type f"); > > cont=gtk_statusbar_get_context_id(stat,"context"); > gtk_statusbar_push(stat,cont,"statusbar two"); > system("find /home/ashok -name abc -type f"); ...to here The Gtk+ main loop has no chance to run. > } > > But when i run this program it shows only "statusbar two" string, means it > shows only last entry. Therefore the labels have no chance to be redrawn, and if the program execution took any nonnegligible time you probably noticed the GUI was completely non-responsive. You can use for instance g_spawn_async...() + some non-blocking form of communication (non-blocking waitpid, GIOChannels), whatever suits you, but in any case you have to run the command asynchronously and return control to the Gtk+ main loop to get a responsive GUI. This was discussed many times here, search the archives. Yeti -- Whatever. _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list