On 18 September 2010 08:22, Jeffrey Barish <jeff_barish@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jeffrey Barish wrote: > >> My application has one operation that runs for a long time (~1 minute). >> During this time, the user is not allowed to do anything. Nevertheless, I >> felt that it was important to give the user some feedback that the >> application is still alive and that the operation is running. My solution >> was to print a message in a TextBuffer and follow the message with a >> string >> of dots that grows in length by one every second. To get the TextView to >> update, I used events_pending/main_iteration. This all works nicely. >> However, because of the events_pending/main_iteration statements, the >> entire >> GUI is now alive. Thus, the user is able to do things that disrupt the >> long-running operation. Basically, what I want is a way to get the >> TextView to update so that I can update the progress indicator but for >> everything >> else still to be locked out. Is there a way to do this? > > Here's a possibility that seems to work: > > I used event_handler_set to define an event handler that filters out all > events (by not calling main_do_event) except EXPOSE while the long-running > operation is underway. I wish that there were a way to restore the default > event handler, but there is only a set method. Anything bad about this > solution? > -- > Jeffrey Barish > > _______________________________________________ > gtk-list mailing list > gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list > You should show progress and block the application by showing a modal dialog containing a progress bar. Cheers Lex _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
