Re: setting the wait mouse cursor during a longer load operation (solved)

[Stefan Kost <kost imn htwk-leipzig de>]

Hi Allin,

I've found it out! Using gdk_window_set cursor is perfectly okay (better that
gdk_pointer_grab in my case - that sets the wait-cursor for the whole screen).

My error was using g_object_unref() onto the cursor object, where instead I
should have used  gdk_cursor_unref().
Btw. gdk_cursor_destroy(plswait); is deprecated ;-)

Still it is not nice that there is no method to acces the window field of a
GtkWidget (like gtk_widget_get_window()). I'll ask on the gtk-devel list about that.

Stefan

Allin Cottrell wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Sep 2004, Stefan Kost wrote:
>
> > when loading a long file I would like to disabled events for the
> > main-window and set a wait mouse-coursor for it.
>
>
> Here's what I do:
>
> if (whatever) {
>     GdkCursor *plswait;
>
>     plswait = gdk_cursor_new(GDK_WATCH);
>     gdk_pointer_grab(mywindow, TRUE,
>              GDK_POINTER_MOTION_MASK | GDK_BUTTON_PRESS_MASK |
>              GDK_BUTTON_RELEASE_MASK,
>              NULL, plswait,
>              GDK_CURRENT_TIME);
>     gdk_cursor_destroy(plswait);
>
>     /* do whatever needs to be done, then... */
>
>     gdk_pointer_ungrab(GDK_CURRENT_TIME);
> }
>
> Allin Cottrell

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