Repainting/Redrawing widgets

["A B" <alvinbeach hotmail com>]

Hello everyone,

I have been messing around with GTK+ 2.0. In the application that I am 
creating, I have a GtkDialog. In that dialog I have a GtkProgressBar. Now, 
I'm sure you have all guessed my problem by now ;). The actual work is being 
done in a pthread. Inside that pthread I am making it update the value of 
the GtkProgressBar. Unfortunately, this update is not being drawn? If I move 
the mouse over the GtkDialog then the GtkProgressBar displays the "new" 
value.

I have been experimenting with different ways of getting it to update. From 
what I understand is that the main GTK loop handles the redrawing. 
Therefore, when the value is changed, it wont be displayed until the main 
loop gets to it. I have tried the:

while(gtk_events_pending())
  gtk_main_iteration();

but I get the following error:

GLib-WARNING **: g_main_context_prepare(): main loop already active in 
another thread

Does anyone know of a way around this?

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Alvin Beach
Email: alvinbeach hotmail com
Website: http://www.vianet.ca/~abeach



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