Re: calling main_quit from signal_connect - is it possible/legal ?

[Kevin Ryde <user42 zip com au>]

Sergei Steshenko <sergstesh yahoo com> writes:
>
> But there are some odd problems with this temporary window - label not
> being displayed if it's a 'top_level' window,

You might have to "flush" the display to send initial drawing out.

> if it's a 'popup' window, but no window decorations in this case ...

No decoration might be normal for popup class.


As a bit of shameless self-promotion, my Gtk2::Ex::WidgetCursor can
conveniently set the busy "watch" pointer to show app windows will be
unresponsive, turning it off automatically when the main loop resumes.