Re: Problem refreshing a GdkCursor

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 19:14, Patrice St-Gelais wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I execute a heavy process in a callback, connected to the "clicked"
> event of a button.
> 
> I want to replace the mouse pointer by a watch during the process.
> 
> Unfortunately, the watch is displayed only after the process, a fraction
> of second before I reset the pointer to the default arrow.
> 
> The button stays "pressed" during all the process.
> 
> I thought the pointer was grabbed, but I put a gtk_grab_get_current in
> the callback, and it gave 0. I also tried a gdk_pointer_is_grabbed, and
> it gave 0.
> 
> I added a new callback connected to the "pressed" event before the
> "clicked" callback, in which I put the set cursor function, without success.
> 
> I have no problem setting the cursor elsewhere in the application.
> 
> I use GTK 1.2.x.
> 
> Any hint welcome!

X requests are batched up and not sent to the windowing system
immediately. gdk_flush() will flush pending calls to the X server.

Regards,
					Owen