re: Displaying console output

[Jeff Hallock <Jhallock WBandA com>]

You can put this line throughout your code or in a loop to update pending events (This is also good to use 
for updating progress bars.)

# Run the main loop as long as events are pending
Gtk2->main_iteration while ( Gtk2->events_pending );


You can also use POE (Perl Object Environment) which allows your program to multitask.


Message: 1
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:12:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: Thomas Rosario <thomasfrlennon yahoo com>
Subject: Displaying console output
To: gtk-perl-list gnome org
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Hi All,

I'm trying to build a GUI to show console output of an existing application. What I've done is 'clicked' 
signal_connect from Gtk2::Button will execute the application and save the output into a Gtk2::TextBuffer 
which will be displayed in Gtk2::TextView.

At the moment, if the button is pressed, the whole GUI will 'freeze' and after the application execution is 
finished, the complete output is displayed. My question is, how can it be done so textview will be updated in 
real time with the console output instead of waiting the whole execution to be finished.

Many Thanks!