Re: Interface freeze during long operations...

["Tara M" <learfox furry ao net>]

On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 20:30:31 +0200, G.Gabriele said:

> Hi all, I'm writing a GTK interface to a portscanner I've developed and,
>  well I'm stuck with the following problem:
>  
>  basically I have a button that if pressed executes a function
>  that start the portscanning loop, and well during this loop
>  the GTK window just get frozen untill the loop is finished.
>  
>  I've even tried to put the scan loop in a thread using pthreads
>  but it's the same story.

Have you tried using timeout callbacks instead?  You can have your
button register a timeout callback when pressed (remember to
record the timeout id) and remove the timeout when the button is
pressed the even number of times?

Look at gtk_timeout_add().

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