Re: Known issues about SpinButtons?

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Thursday, February 26, 2004, at 02:25 PM, Chris Phillips wrote:

> I can see how this would relate to the widget visibly scrolling back 
> down to 1 as each even is looped, but why should this happen in the 
> first place? Sounds like a duffer in gtk2 somewhere.

can you post some example code?


> is anyone aware of a way to visibly update a status bar while a long 
> open("something |") call is running without using this approach? i'd 
> be very grateful for any ideas.

use Glib::IO->add_watch() or Gtk2::Helper->add_watch() to add the 
open()ed file handle to the main loop's poll list.  that way, you'll 
get a callback when data is available for reading, and the mainloop 
keeps going.

i would've sworn that was in the FAQ, but i would've been wrong.


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