Re: [gtkmm] flush

[nwerneck cefala org]

It  worked  horrorshow!!  Silly  me,  It took sometime before I see what
``the  GUI  thread''  mean.  The  code  even  looks more organized using
dispatchers!...  It  wasn't  necessary  to  use  any  of these queue and
invalidate functions.

thanks!

On 200404, 11:46, Tor Arvid Lund wrote:
> I think you need to call queue_draw() on the StatusBar widget, and then 
> if you want to force a repaint, you need to do:
> 
> while(Gtk::Main::events_pending()) Gtk::Main::iteration();
> 
> The important thing here, is that the GUI thread needs to do this, or 
> else everything gets messed up. A solution is to let the other threads 
> emit a signal when something needs repainting, and let the GUI thread 
> listen on that signal, and call the above while loop. A normal signal 
> won't work across threads, so I use a Glib::Dispatcher, which let you 
> pipe signals across threads.
> 
> Hope this helps.

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