On 09.08, Jim Heald wrote: > Hello there! > > I'm writing a GTK+ application in C. In my application I'm running two > commands that take a bit of time; in order to not make it appear that the > program has just frozen, I am wanting to do the following: > > 1) run the dialog, which has a spinner widget > 2) add to the dialog area a message that says what the first command does > 3) run the first command > 4) add a message saying that the second command is running > 5) run the second command > 6) add a done message > 7) allow the user to click "Ok" to close (or maybe delay for a second and > close) Your "commands" here are blocking the main thread, thus GTK+ can't update any widget, not even show a window. It's the typical "don't block the main thread" problem and the solution is to run your commands in another thread and push update messages (e.g. for a progressbar if you need that) to the main thread using g_idle_add. _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
