Re: Update progress bar without returning to main loop?

[Toralf Lund <toralf procaptura com>]

Foster Gareth wrote:

> > At least it behaves this way using the Gnome desktop on the Suse 9.3 
> > flavor of linux.
> >
> >    
>
> Mine is running here on MinGW/win32 - the result is almost as ugly :)
>  
I'm testing with GNOME 2.2 on a Linux box, and I'm not able to close the 
window while the job is active, at least not on my own application 
(haven't tried your example code yet.)

The way I interpret what Bob said, the ability to close the window is 
retained on his setup, but he has to confirm the operation via a dialog. 
I actually think that sounds excellent. I mean, I don't really want to 
disable exit completely when a slow job is active, but I do want to add 
user confirmation for it.

Also note that if I replace

gdk_window()->process_updates(false)

with

get_toplevel()->queue_redraw();
get_toplevel()->gdk_window()->process_updates(true);

I get a nice update of the entire window - just as I thought. This may 
slow down the operation too much if it is done often, however.

- Toralf