Re: repainting GtkTextView

["Shahms E. King" <shahms shahms com>]

On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 16:51, Harring Figueiredo wrote:
>  Folks, I have the following while loop:
>
>  while( (img_fp = fopen(settings->image_file, "r" )) == NULL)
>     {
>         g_print("Trying to open : %s on while loop.\n" , settings->image_file);
>         log(WARN,"Image order file is locked ? %s\n", settings->image_file);
>         sleep(1) ;
>         if(++tries > 10) return;
>     }
>
>  log(...)
> {
>  /* get eh date and level and what not ... */
>   /* print on the textview ... */
>   ...
>  gtk_text_buffer_insert_with_tags_by_name (buffer, &iter, str, -1,
>                                                            color_attr[level] ,
> ,NULL);
+ gtk_main_iteration ();
> } 


You need to iterate the main loop to handle any pending events (such as
redraws, clicks, etc.).

--Shahms