Re: Drawing area redraws, widgets/hbox do not

[Axel Simon <A Simon kent ac uk>]

On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 22:09 -0500, Royce C wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a GUI with
>
> -a GtkDrawingArea which has an associated GdkDrawable which has
> an associated GtkPixmap which is used to display images and drawing
> primitives
> -a GtkHBox with buttons
>
> The backend of the GUI is CPU intensive and when the backend starts,
> the GUI is no longer interactive (e.g. moving over buttons does not
> highlight them, etc.) EXCEPT the drawing area updates as the backend
> tells the drawing area to.  My issue is that the box with buttons does
> not update as well.  Anytime the drawing area is told to update, the
> box is also told to update (it is told to remove all buttons it holds
> then add some buttons),  but the box's update is not visible until the
> backend is completely done.  None of the updates in-between beginning
> and end are displayed.
> Is there anyway I can get the box to refresh as the drawing area does?

Every now and then, try to call gtk_main_iteration_do(false) as long as
gtk_events_pending() returns true.

Axel.