Re: ProgressBar doesn't pulse

[Ben Staude <sben1783 yahoo de>]

Am Dienstag 16 Januar 2007 18:35 schrieb zentara:
> On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:21:30 +0100
>
> Ben Staude <sben1783 yahoo de> wrote:
> > Am Sonntag 14 Januar 2007 04:21 schrieb muppet:
> > > On Jan 13, 2007, at 5:54 PM, Ben Staude wrote:
> > > > Any ideas why it doesn't work? Is this related to some Gtk/KDE
> > > > "interaction"?
> > >
> > > This typically happens when you don't return control the main loop.
> > > Does your program respond at all while it's supposed to be pulsing?
> >
> > I am using this as test code (was posted by zentara here:
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/gtk-perl-list gnome org/msg00854.html):
[ snip code ]

> > This test script does work as expected on another Linux machine (running
> > Debian Sarge with KDE), but the progressbar looks different (more like
> > gnome, whereas on Kubuntu (where it doesn't work), they have some KDE
> > integration of gtk and therefor a KDE progressbar).
> >
> > > You might also try setting the pulse step.  The default is 0.1, but
> > > you may need a different value for some reason or another.  Difficult
> > > to tell without more information.
> >
> > Maybe the code above helps sorting out programming issues (as the test
> > script isn't mine:-)). Besides this, I don't know in which direction to
> > search for the cause or provide information? Maybe someone on the list
> > can run the test script on their Kubuntu to find out whether it's related
> > to that?
> >
> > Thanks a lot,
> > Ben
>
> I just ran the example, on my linux box, and it pulses very fast. If I set
> the timer interval to 1 (very fast), it seems to sputter. So my thought is
> that with all the KDE bloat in kbuntu, running the timer at 10, is too fast
> for the system to update the screen, so it appears not to work.

I agree that there might be some "KDE bloat", but it's not *that* bad;-) 

> Try setting the timer to 100,  500, or even 1000 and see if kbuntu can
> keep up.

I set the timer to different values (from 5 to 5000), it still doesn't work. 
The CPU is idle, the system is completely reactive. This is including the 
test dialog, where the Quit-button has the same "hover"-effect as the other 
kde buttons. Only the progressbar does not seem to do anything at all...

> zentara

Ben

                
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