RE: Update progress bar without returning to main loop?

[Foster Gareth <gareth foster siemens com>]

> I'm more sceptical to docs that suggesti to users that you 
> have to use 
> event loop constructs and/or threads in order to do something 
> as simple 
> as this. Not that there is anything wrong with Bob's example as such, 
> it's just that it shows the way to program *if you want to respond to 
> user input while the job progresses*. It you don't, then I daresay 
> running an event loop is overly complex and/or simply wrong.
> 

Are we saying then, that you do ...

  while(Gtk::Main::instance()->events_pending())
    Gtk::Main::instance()->iteration();			// if you want to
allow user interaction and redraw

  gdk_window()->process_updates(false);			// if you want to
allow redraw


If that is the case, a small update to the example I made could be used to
illustrate the point.

Gaz