Re: Re: Hide window while "busy"

[Ingvar Tjostheim <ingvar isafold com>]

I do hide or destroy the top level widget (the window), but still it doesn't remove from screen.
Thanks

On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 09:39:42 -0800 (PST)
Harring Figueiredo <harringf yahoo com> wrote:

>  I don;t think it is a good idea to hid the window.... but if you must do it..
> make sure you are hiding the top level widget.
>
>   gtk_widget_hide( <your_top_level_to_hide>);
>
> --- Ingvar Tjostheim <ingvar isafold com> wrote:
> > I'm not too good with GTK yet, and need help with what probably is a simple
> > problem.
> >
> > When the user pushes a button in a window my program starts a pretty long
> > process.
> > During this process I want the window to disappear, but when calling either
> >     gtk_widget_destroy(data);
> > or
> >     gtk_widget_hide(data);
> > the window becomes disabled, but is still there.
> > I think that's because gtk_main is waiting for the button-function to finish,
> > and the button-function is waiting for the process.
> >
> > With gtk_main_quit you can do like this:
> >    gtk_widget_destroy(GTK_WIDGET(data));
> >    while (g_main_iteration(FALSE)) 
> >    gtk_main_quit();
> > to close the window in the same situation, but that does not work with
> > gtk_widget_destroy or hide.
> >
> > Is there another way?
> >
> > Thanks!
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