Re: Getting the "busy" cursor to display.

[James Tappin <jtappin gmail com>]

On 11 April 2012 09:25, James Tappin <jtappin gmail com> wrote:

> 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.
I'm now really confused -- I've reordered some of the code so that the
set_cursor call precedes putting a message in the status bar. And the
status bar updates but not the cursor.