Re: Getting the "busy" cursor to display.

[James Tappin <jtappin gmail com>]

On 11 April 2012 04:36, <jcupitt gmail com> wrote:

> On 10 April 2012 18:33, James Tappin <jtappin gmail com> wrote:
> > Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately in this case it doesn't help. (I
> > have also tried gdk_display_flush and gdk_window_flush, but still the
> same
> > story).
>
> Here's a tiny test program that works for me with gtk2. It just uses:
>
>  gdk_window_set_cursor( win->window, busy_cursor );
>  gdk_flush();
>
> J
>
>
> That program works, as does a translation into Fortran. But I'm still not
having any joy with my display monitor. Maybe the only convenient fix is to
show a window with a message "Reading database" during the read and then
create the monitor afterwards.

To Igor: I thought that a progress bar in activity mode had to be prodded
to show the animation, which is not possible while I'm doing the read.