Re: Cannot hide dialog until signal handler exits

[Jan-Marek Glogowski <glogow fbihome de>]

Hi

> The signal handler for a button in my main window launches a file
> chooser dialog, then processes the selected files.
> I try to hide the dialog during processing with 'gtk_widget_hide
> (dialog);' but this does not take effect until the signal handler exits.
> Is there a way to hide the dialog immediately to show the progress bar
> in the underlying window?

IMHO the easiest way is a g_timeout_add(0,..), which does the processing
in the main loop. And return FALSE in your GSourceFunc, so the timeout is
just run once.

HTH

Jan-Marek