Re: Redraw

[Emmanuel Saracco <esaracco noos fr>]

On Mon, 02 Dec 2002 09:27:22 +0530
Deekshit Mantampady <deekshit mantampady wipro com> wrote:

>   Here is a basic doubt regarding redraw in GTK.
>   I am using status bar to display the acitivity that I am performing
>   on click
> of a button/Menu item. The handler may in turn calling several
> functions. Say Sorting, Parsing.. etc. I am calling gtk_statusbar_push
> function to put the string to status bar. But these messages are not
> getting updated. So I tried to push only one message(no pop ). I
> observed that it is getting updated only if I come out of handler,
> basically returning back to gtk_main(). But I want to redraw it
> immediatly. Please let me know, how can make it possible.


you can use this code in your callback:

------------
  while (gtk_events_pending())
   gtk_main_iteration();
------------

also take a look at http://developer.gnome.org/doc/GGAD/faqs.html

bye