Re: [gtkmm] trouble with redrawing screen

["B.Hakvoort" <bart hakvoort be>]

Very informative response :^)

I solved it by starting the "unknown amount of time task" as a thread
and running pulsing in the main window.

On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 22:58, Chris Vine wrote:
> On Monday 10 May 2004 17:44, B.Hakvoort wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'd like to show my impatient users a pulsebar when an application
> > performs a lenghty task. But somehow the "pulsing" doesn't show up in
> > the main screen. I've already tried several things like
> > queue_draw() and
> > while (Gtk::Main::events_pending())  Gtk::Main::iteration();
> >
> > Can someone tell me what i'm doing wrong?
> 
> Incorrect use of threads.