RE: GtkProgressBar && RE: updating a progress bar in a loop

[Tony Gale <gale daedalus dera gov uk>]

On 05-Mar-98 Sergei Naumov wrote:
> I am trying to use progress bar when doing a MySQL query. The
> question I
> have is how do I update the state of the progress bar if everything
> is
> happening INSIDE mysql_query()?


On 05-Mar-98 Chris Black wrote:
> I run gtk_init, create the progress bar, add a timeout that starts
> my 
> loop, within the loop I call gtk_progress_bar_update but the
> display doesn't 
> seem to change. 

Drawing updates usually only happen when you are in gtk_main. You can
force them, however using something like:

while (gtk_events_pending())
        gtk_main_iteration();

inside you're respective functions that change the progress bar.

(I seem to remember seeing something that updated a specific widget,
but can't find it now - but the above should do the trick).

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