Re: GUI freeze and long blocking operation

[Kip Warner <kip thevertigo com>]

On Wed, 2013-06-12 at 09:50 +0100, jcupitt gmail com wrote:
> Do you need to use idle_add()?

Hey John,

If I start the long job function from within my assistant's "prepare"
signal callback, as opposed to en-queueing it there via idle_add(), then
the GUI doesn't refresh throughout the duration of the long job. This
happens even though I do pump the message queue during the long job via
the usual...

        while Gtk.events_pending():
                Gtk.main_iteration()

Thanks a lot for your help.

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