Re: delays in event dispatching ???

[Diego Zuccato <cssl geocities com>]

Owen Taylor wrote:
> The problem is you are using gtk_widget_show() to show the dialog -
> this asks the window manager to show the dialog but doesn't
> wait for it to do so, so when you process the event queue, the
> window may not yet be there to draw on.
> 
> Instead you should call gtk_widget_show_now() which asks the
> window manager to show the dialog and waits for it to become
> visible.
Tks. Actually, this solved the problem.
Is there any side effect when using gtk_widget_show_now() instead of
gtk_widget_show() ?

> So, to be absolutely safe, you probably should call
> gtk_widget_draw(dialog) after processing the event queue the first
> time.
Ok.

BYtE,
 Diego.

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