Re: GTK Progress bar: assistance pls.

[Bin Chen <binary chen gmail com>]

å 2008-01-07äç 12:21 +0530ïvijayasarathy setsindia netåéï
> Hi All,
>
>
> My name is Vijay, and I have been working with GTK [with glade] for the
> last few months in making an UI for certain programs that we have
> implemented.
>
> The programs I am talking about are ones which keep running for hours
> together. I want to use a progress bar which will keep showing the
> progress of these program from time to time [wanted to have a time out
> function which will automatically be invoked every now and then]. I do
> this by having a variable called fraction which will be updated with the
> proportion of work that has been completed. I write a function which will
> keep invoking itself periodically, and inside the function, I want to read
> this variable fraction, and update progress bar correspondingly.
>
> Unfortunately, the example that is given in the GTK tutorial for a
> progress bar doesnt address this practical need. It is only in the
> periodically invoked function that the new value of fraction for the
> progress bar is being updated. Hence it is easy in that case to be
> updating progress bar.
>
> Can you please let me know how this should be done.
It sounds like you want to update the progress according your
"progress", right?
I think you should define your own check point and then update the
progress bar manually. The gtk progress bar can't know your own logic.

Bin