RE: Concurrent processes

["Hugues Bernard" <hbernard gynov org>]

Salut !

> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to build up a physics simulation with Glade and GTK. The main
> function of the simulation is a function called isingflip(). This
> function must do interations up to 1000000 times but the calculation is
> based on two variables controlled by two scrollbars defined in the main
> window. I have already put signal to pass the value of the scrollbars to
> the variables and it works. But when I launch the simulation by clicking
> on a button called "Simulation", the program does the calculations but
> while doing this, I cannot move anymore the scrollbars to change
> parameters.
> 
> Is there a way to let me change parameters ? Maybe lookup signals or
> somenthing like that ? I've heard something about threads but I don't
> know what it is.... I'm really a newbie so if someone could give me some
> very detailled way to do this, it would be very nice.

I had this problem, and I solve it using the idle functions.
Compute only some iterations at a time (say 1000, depending of the time it takes)
As the idle func temporary finished, gtk should be able to process the gui interaction...

Ciao

Hugues

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Hugues Bernard
hbernard gynov org http://gynov.org



> 
> Thanks a lot
> 
> Valery Avaux
> 
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