Re: gtk_timeout_add / SIGALRM with gtk

[Tristan Van Berkom <vantr touchtunes com>]

Colin Thomas wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I am developing an application which is basically a lots of buttons, no
> drawing areas. When one button is depressed, the application runs a
> compute intensive job for 20 minutes. While this is happening though the
> main screen does not refresh, and slowly becomes obiterated.

You have two solutions to consider:
    A.) Modify your "compute intensive job" so that it can be identified
        in short itterations that either AA) return to the main loop
        or AB) gtk_main_iteration(); (i.e. nest the main loop)

    B.) If this "compute intensive job" is a single function call from
        a third party then you will have to run it in a thread (which
        can be alot more complicated then solution A).


Cheers,
                             -Tristan