Re: progressbar

[David Sword <gdsword williamsword co uk>]

On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 14:55, Torsten Schoenfeld wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 15:54, David Sword wrote:
>
> > I have added a progressbar to my window, and I am calling set_fraction
> > within a subroutine which processes a bunch of report items.  The
> > progressbar does not update until the subroutine exits.  I am sure there
> > is something basic I don't understand - could somebody enlighten me
> > please?
>
> You're routine is blocking GTK's main loop - thus it has no chance to do
> the necessary drawings. Use
>
>   Gtk2 -> main_iteration() while (Gtk2 -> events_pending());
>
> at the end of your loop, after the set_fraction and set_text calls, to
> circumvent that problem.

Marvellous!  Thanks
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Regards


David Sword