Re: Displaying a popup before the main window

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 19:58 +0200, Nicolas Courtel wrote:
> Hello,
>
> As my program needs a few seconds to start, I would like to display a 
> popup to tell the user that it's working.
> Looks pretty simple, but for some reason the popup shows up empty, and I 
> can't figure out what I've done wrong.

to borrow the phrase from those damn kids today: you're doing it wrong.

> sleep 10;

do not *ever* call a blocking function when using a mainloop-based
toolkit like gtk+.

*any* blocking call will prevent the main loop to spin, which will
prevent redraw operations and event handling from ever happening.

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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