[Glade-users] Update progressbar from forked child

[tvb at gnome.org (Tristan Van Berkom)]

Steven wrote:
> Hi Tristan,
>
> Thx for your answer.  I'll subscribe to the gtk lists.
>
> I tried your solution, and it works half...
>
> If I use vfork, my main window hangs until the child is done, and then
> the progressbar is updated nicely
> (but the function keeps running, despite the return FALSE;)
> If I use fork, the main window doesn't hang but the idle_function isn't
> executed (even not when the child exits)
>
> Do you mind glancing an eye on my code ?  I'm not used to program GUIs
> and work with events etc, so I guess it's a stupid mistake somewhere.
> And I'll be glad if you could point it out :-)

Yes I did glance at the code, and I gave you a solution, I told you
to use a thread - dont fork your program - use a thread.

Cheers,
                    -Tristan