Re: delays in event dispatching ???

[Vlad Harchev <hvv hippo ru>]

On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Diego Zuccato wrote:

 Hi,

 What OS do you program for? I remember a lot of fragments like

   while (gtk_events_pending())         /* FreeBSD workaround */
      gtk_main_iteration();

 in the source of wmakerconf-0.6.2 - may be it's your case?

> Hello all.
> 
> In a program I'm developing, it seems that events take some time to be
> dispatched. So, if in a dialog window I :
> 0) show dialog
> 1) update text and percentage in a progress bar
> 2) process event queue
> 3) loop 1)
> I see updates starting from the second (and it seems the window is
> completly redrawn, infact sometimes other content get "blanked out").
> BUT, if :
> 2a) sleep(1);
> 2b) process event queue
> I see the first update, too.
> 
> To "process event queue" I tries all I could think:
> * while(gtk_events_pending()) gtk_main_iteration();
> * while(gtk_events_pending()) gtk_main_iteration_do(TRUE);
> * while(gtk_events_pending()) gtk_main_iteration_do(FALSE);
> * gtk_main_iteration_do(TRUE);
> * gtk_main_iteration_do(FALSE);
> (possibly some others I don't remember).
> 
> Am I missing something (probably, since I'm quite new to GTK
> programming) ?
> 
> Tks in advance, and sorry for my bad english.
>  Diego.
> 

 Best regards,
  -Vlad