Re: Why doesn't my label show up in the window

[Frank Cox <theatre melvilletheatre com>]

On Sun, 26 Aug 2012 22:17:59 +0200
Olivier Sessink wrote:

> 1) show the dialog (like you do now
>
> 2) at the end of that function, register a idle callback with
> g_idle_add_full() with a low priority
>
> 3) in the callback, send the email, and show the second dialog, return
> FALSE (otherwise glib will keep calling the idle function
>
> this is how you work with an event loop. you basically you ask glib:
> once you are ready with everything that is slightly higher priority
> (like drawing the dialog), run my function.

Thanks!  I'm going to play with this concept and see where I get to from here.

I was pretty much stuck on that point and I think this is just the steer that I
need to get a bit further along.

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