Re: Getting Progress bar to display

[Clemens Kirchgatterer <clemens root at>]

Mathew Yeates wrote:
> Hi-
>
> I'm trying to do the following (forgive the Python)
>
> myprogressbar.show()
> longfunc()
>
> but the progress bar does not fully get shown until after the longfunc.
> So I tried
>
> myprogressbar.show()
> while gtk.events_pending() != 0:
>        gtk.mainiteration(gtk.TRUE)
> longfunc()
>
> but apparently I need to process for events. So I resorted to
>
> myprogressbar.show()
> for i in range(10000):
>       while gtk.events_pending() != 0:
>         gtk.mainiteration(gtk.TRUE)
> longfunc()
>
> and this worked.
>
> What is the correct way to do this? (I can't process the gtk signals from
> within longfunc)

you can use a seperate thread to update the progressbar or a gtk_timeout
callback.

timout callbacks are very easy to handle, so i would suggest to look at
the gtk tutorial first for that option.

regards ...
clemens