Re: progressbar updates

[Felix Natter <fnatter gmx net>]

"Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23 cornell edu> writes:

> the progress bar is only updated when the gtk main loop is run, which
> only happens when any functions you are running give control back to the
> main loop.

Ok, but isn't then the clean reason to start a subthread?

I get problems in the main thread when I access the progressbar
(set_fraction) and statusbar (push/pop) from the subthread (=> display
problems...). How can I synchronize this?

> you can force the main loop to process events (and thus update the
> progress bar, by doing something like this after each time you call
> set_fraction():
>
> while(gtk_event_pending())
>     gtk_main_iteration();
>
> i'm not sure what the gtkmm equivalent of that is, but it's probably
> similar.

thanks, I'll try that too.

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