Re: Visibility of pop_up windows

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> writes:

> Colin Thomas <colin designresources co uk> writes:
> > I have been writing an application, which has pop_up windows when a
> > warning need to be displayed.
> >
> > There seems to be a scheduling issue with the windows painting.
> >
> > When the pop_up window is invoked, just a grey outline is painted. The whole
> > window does not get repainted until the function calling it has completed
> > and the code is in "idle" state. This can be a few minutes, so the display
> > looks unprofessional
> >
> > How can I get the pop_up window to paint "in-full" before anything else 
> > occurs?
>
> That won't help - if you lock up your program doing some calculation,
> the user can obscure the dialog and it will again go blank and need
> repainting. So finishing the paint before you lock up the program
> doesn't get you very far, it just postpones the issue. 

Agreed.

> (That said, no I don't know of a good way to force the paint before
> you enter your calculation.)

Call:

 gtk_widget_draw (window);
 gdk_flush ();

Regards,
                                        Owen