Re: Problem refreshing a GdkCursor

[Patrice St-Gelais <patrice st-gelais oricom ca>]

Hi,

Both solutions work. I'll use gdk_flush() because it's shorter.

Thanks a lot!
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Owen Taylor a écrit:
> 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!
> 
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> 
> 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
> 
> 
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 > 	Try adding:
 >
 > 	while (gtk_events_pending())
 > 		gtk_main_iteration();
 >
 > 	Right after you've changed the mouse pointer.
 >
-- Leandro Pereira