Re: Progressbar

[Gorshkov <listsubscriptions oghma on ca>]

you're quite welcome ..... I've gotten a lot of help myself over the 
years from these lists, and it's nice to give something back 
occasionally ... especially when I just figured it out myself a few 
months ago :-)

Sandra Derbring wrote:
> Thank you, this worked fine for me!
>
> 2008/5/19 Gorshkov <listsubscriptions oghma on ca 
> <mailto:listsubscriptions oghma on ca>>:
>
>     Sandra Derbring wrote:
>
>         Hello,
>
>         I have a problem with a progressbar. I want, for every file I
>         look into, for the bar to show some progress, so that while you
>         wait for the program to finish, the whole time can see the bar
>         moving. When I implement it, all that happens is that the bar
>         gets filled first after the program's finished. How do I make it
>         show during the process?
>
>         self.progressbar = gtk.ProgressBar()
>         self.progressbar.show()
>
>         self.step = 1/len(list)
>
>         for file in list:
>              self.x += self.step
>              #do smth with file
>              self.progressbar.set_fraction(self.x)
>
>
>
>            gtk_progress_bar_set_fraction(pb, dpercent);
>            gtk_progress_bar_set_text(pb, "Your text here");
>            while (gtk_events_pending())
>                    gtk_main_iteration();
>
>
>
>     what you're missing is to force the updates to occur AT THE TIME,
>     and not have them sit in the queue untill you're finished.