Re: updating appearance of a dialog without gtk_dialog_run?

[Ben Johnson <ben blarg net>]

On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 10:56:42AM +0100, Jean Br?fort wrote:
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> call gtk_main_loop from your blocking operation.
> 

if I call gtk_main_loop() from within my blocking function, won't
gtk_main_loop() block and stop my function from doing anything useful?
I'll have to make gtk_main_loop() return somehow, won't I?  I don't know
why this is better than calling gtk_dialog_run().

- Ben