Re: progress bar issues

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Srinivasan Sriram <pet_jimmy yahoo com> writes:
> I have a piece of code inside a button click event
> handler to create 25 child processes. After forking
> each child process, I want to update a progress bar to
> let the user know the status of the forking and how
> may processes it has forked. I am incrementing a
> gfloat variable by 0.04 every time inside the loop
> which forks child processes and I am also calling
> gtk_progress_set_percentage everytime. To my utter
> dismay, the progress bar gets updated only after all
> the 25 processes have been forked. I used
> gtk_progress_get_current_percentage to see if the
> percentage is correctly incremented and it is. And the
> second time I click the button, the progress bar is
> not becoming empty even though I have initialied the
> percentage to 0.0 .
> 
> Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
> 

Check the FAQ (you need to run the main loop after setting the
percentage). (gtk.org is down but will be back soon)

Havoc