Re: Screen updates while long time running subroutine

[Andrej Prsa <andrej prsa guest arnes si>]

Hello!

> okay, but my earlier post ("picking up resize events") has the sizing of the drawables in terms of the gdkwindow size IN the main routine.
> 
> so that's not much help, really ..
> Anyone???

I'm only going to rephrase the question: what would happen if you have to deal with an external binary program you call with system(), which takes long time to execute? Is there a way to update the GUI-related stuff?

Andrej