Re: [gtkmm] sensitivity seems to be 'ignored'

["Jeffrey Rush" <rushjeffrey hotmail com>]

Hello again,

> Jeffrey Rush wrote:
> > Fine :) (see me smile). But how do I 'prevent' the main loop from
> > taking/recognizing/processing (button press) events (ie. while calculating 
> > stuff)? Do you know that coincidentally?
>
> I don't know if you can do this. Just set the window or just the widget to 
> insensitive.
>
> I think the event processing is just
>
> if (!widget->sensitive) return;
>
> so it is not a big overhead.

But I would have to write that line into every callback routine
I have. I've found another way to solve my problem. I call it
the Event-Absorber(tm). :) It works like this: at the end of my
callback routine with the heavy calculations I have
GdkEvent *eventabsorber;

while ((eventabsorber = gdk_event_get()) != NULL)
 gdk_event_free(eventabsorber);

What this does is to 'kill' all events that happened during
heavy calculation phase. I haven't found any negative side
effects of this tweak yet.

Thanks for your help anyway,
many cheers,
Jeffrey Rush.

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