Re: Displaying a popup before the main window

[Grant McLean <grant mclean net nz>]

On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 21:59 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> 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+.

More info in the FAQ ...

http://live.gnome.org/GTK2-Perl/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#Why_sometimes_the_UI_does_not_update.3F

Cheers
Grant