Re: frozen GUI!!! urgent help required!

[Dave Reed <dreed capital edu>]

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> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 14:55:47 +0100 (MET)
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> Hello all,
> 
> I've the following situation in/with my GUI (actually
> I'm using Gtk--, but that shouldn't matter because
> Gtk-- is only a wrapper for Gtk+):
> A checkbutton gets pressed and calculations
> begin (involving retrieving of images from a
> video camera and processing them). And
> at this moment the GUI is frozen, no buttons
> are clickable anymore and the window isn't
> redrawn when temporary overlapped by other
> windows. It looks like as if everything is frozen.
> 
> So, what is going wrong??? Does the GUI of
> Gtk+ not run parallel to the calculations to fetch


Not unless you create a separate thread for the calculations. When the
calculations finish, you should be able to interact with the GUI again.


> X events or is it a fault I just don't see?!
> I hope someone can help me (soon).
> Thanks for helping in advance.

Dave