Re: Confusion displaying windows

[Jérôme Schell <jschell cybercable fr>]

Marco Quezada wrote:
Hello

Perhaps try 

  while (gtk_events_pending())
     gtk_main_iteration();

just after your gtk_widget_show()

Jerome

 
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to display a window with a status indicator in it when the
> user invokes a particular callback. The code looks something like this:
>
> void
> on_generate_gdf_button_clicked         (GtkButton       *button,
>
> gpointer         user_data)
> {
>
>    GtkWidget *progress_window;
>
>    progress_window = create_progress_window();
>    gtk_widget_show (progress_window);
>
>  .................--- code continues
>
>    gtk_object_destroy(GTK_OBJECT(progress_window));
>
> }
>
> Unfortunately the progress_window does not display on screen after the gtk_widget_show(progress_window)
>
> call, but instead it appears on screen after the on_generate_gdf_button_clicked callback exits.
>
> Can anyone offer some advice on this point? Is there a "refresh" function that needs to be called?
>
> Thanks