Re: Best event to use???

[Paolo Molaro <lupus ximian com>]

On 05/23/01 Ken Huisman wrote:
> I want to pop up a window that says something like
> 'please wait' while I go off and do some processing
> in my application.
>
> What I am wondering is what is the best way to do this?
>
> I was thinking of triggering the processing I want to
> do off of an event after the window is displayed, but I
> am not sure what event would be the best one to
> use for something like this?
>
> Is there a better way to do something like this anyways?

The Gtk::cookbook manpage has an example (the splash screen)
that does almost the same thing, you could do something similar.

lupus

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