Re: Why does my cursor doesn't change

["A. Pagaltzis" <pagaltzis gmx de>]

* Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com> [2007-04-03 18:50]:
> On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 11:36 -0500, Kenneth Swanson wrote:
> > Are we not telling people the other, quick 'n' dirty way to
> > get around this?  That is, that if you have a long block of
> > code in a callback or some other code, you can add the line
> > 
> > Gtk2->main_iteration while(Gtk2->events_pending);
> > 
> > to get the GUI to update?  Or does that not work correctly
> > anymore?
> 
> it's not the "kosher" solution: forcing the main loop to spin
> it's an hack, and masks the real problem

That’s true, but does it have any *tangible* drawbacks to kick
the mainloop manually? Is there any reason why this shouldn’t be
used even in cases where it would be *much* harder to punt the
processing to a timeout callback (or a forked child)?

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>