Re: Problem refreshing a GdkCursor

[Patrice St-Gelais <patrice st-gelais oricom ca>]

Hi,

Both solutions work. I'll use gdk_flush() because it's shorter.

Thanks a lot!
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Owen Taylor a écrit:
> On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 19:14, Patrice St-Gelais wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I execute a heavy process in a callback, connected to the "clicked"
> > event of a button.
> >
> > I want to replace the mouse pointer by a watch during the process.
> >
> > Unfortunately, the watch is displayed only after the process, a fraction
> > of second before I reset the pointer to the default arrow.
> >
> > The button stays "pressed" during all the process.
> >
> > I thought the pointer was grabbed, but I put a gtk_grab_get_current in
> > the callback, and it gave 0. I also tried a gdk_pointer_is_grabbed, and
> > it gave 0.
> >
> > I added a new callback connected to the "pressed" event before the
> > "clicked" callback, in which I put the set cursor function, without success.
> >
> > I have no problem setting the cursor elsewhere in the application.
> >
> > I use GTK 1.2.x.
> >
> > Any hint welcome!
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> X requests are batched up and not sent to the windowing system
> immediately. gdk_flush() will flush pending calls to the X server.
>
> Regards,
>                                         Owen
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>    Try adding:
>
>    while (gtk_events_pending())
>            gtk_main_iteration();
>
>    Right after you've changed the mouse pointer.
>
-- Leandro Pereira