system calls was Progress Bar

[Steve & Patti Getzinger <steveandpatti wubs org>]

I am using system twice in 2 small funcs and the effect I am trying to
pull off is display a dialog (similiar to GIMP). I am calling the dialog
func first and then another func which utilizes system(command). The
dialog window will not display until after the second func has completed
it's dirty work. I understand system basically puts the GTK app stop and
hold while it completes it's task and then returns to GTK. Is there
something in GTK that can be used instead of system or am I missing
something such as incorporating a delay between the funcs. The two funcs
are totally independant of each other at this point.

Steve