Re: Loading a file on startup

[David Morse <dm-gtk bomberlan net>]

Markus Lausser <sgop users sourceforge net> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I want to load a huge file on startup, this lasts up to a few minutes, but
> my application should not freeze.
> At the moment i have realized this with a gtk_idle_add(), but i would prefer
> the gdk_input_add() method. But this freezes my application until the whole
> file was read.
>
> And now i wonder:
> if i use gtk_input_add() on a socket to download from another machine, my app
> never freezes (also if there is always data available). SO, why does my app 
> when reading from a file?
>
> Am i doing something wrong here?
>
> Markus.


Speaking in general terms, maybe you should start a worker thread to load
the file, and send an event (or something) to the gui thread when done.