Re: GtkProgressBar getting blocked

["Daniel Atallah" <daniel atallah gmail com>]

On 3/16/06, jim Pharis <binbrain gmail com> wrote:
> I have an external synchronous library call that takes a while to
> complete. I want to display a progress bar well I'm waiting.
>
> The problem is, even when the progress bar is in the thread in a loop
> calling gtk_progress_bar_pulse, the progress bar still looks like its
> frozen. Here is the psuedo code.

You should do it the other way around - have your library call in the
other thread.

If your main thread is blocked, you're not going to get any UI updates.

-D