Re: calling main_quit from signal_connect - is it possible/legal ?

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Nov 23, 2008, at 5:27 PM, Sergei Steshenko wrote:
> Other than lack of decorations the 'popup' window seems to solve the
> problem - I hide  the main window and show the 'popup' one, so there  
> are no
> events to be registered by widgets since there are no widgets.

Unresponsive UIs, with no progress indication and no Cancel button,  
are a horrible, horrible thing.  Your users will despise you.

You can still fork your app to have the main work run in another  
process, and communicate progress info to the other process, so allow  
pulsing a progress bar and watching for the user to hit a "Cancel"  
button.  The subprocess is preferable to a thread here because the  
cancel action can be simply "kill $child".


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