On 17/09/10 22:01, 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? fslint does this, except that it allows one to click only a stop button. It does this in the the look_busy() function by doing: self.stop.grab_focus() self.control_buttons.grab_add() You could do the same with a dummy widget? http://www.pixelbeat.org/fslint/ cheers, Pádraig. _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
