Re: system calls was Progress Bar

[Fredrik Rambris <fredrik rambris com>]

Steve & Patti Getzinger wrote:
> 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.

If you have no problem of the two tasks running in paralell do try 
system( "command &" );

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