Re: Problem with updating text in Gtk Dialogs...

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 05:18, robin_field us ibm com wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have an app that uses a Gtk dialog to update files that are being
> downloaded.  So as a new file is being downloaded, the Gtk dialog is
> suppose to display the new file text string on the Dialog.  This works
> intermittently where I see all the updates going to the dialog.  But
> sometimes the text is not updated with the new text string??  I'm not
> sure how to repaint or refresh the dialog when it is resized, etc and
> this also causes the dialog to lose some of it's text and Cancel
> button (if the user moves the dialog or minimizes, etc..., the dialog
> reappears without the Cancel button or is missing a line of text...).
> How do I redraw the dialog when this happens???  expose event???

I'd look at FAQ question 5.16 (Why doesn't my widget (e.g. progressbar)
update?) first:

http://www.gtk.org/faq/#AEN566

Regards,
                                                Owen