Re: activity bars

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Will Frishe <slyder earendel org> writes:
> I've got normal progress bars working just fine, but in one place I just
> want it to show activity. I found gtk_progress_set_activity_mode and
> friends, which seems to set it up right (it looks ok when it pops up),
> but how do I make it go??? I've tried a couple of things, none of which
> seem to work, so I'm guessing I'm doing something dumb.

It's really ridiculous what you have to do; basically you have to
change the value of the progress bar's adjustment whenever you want to
show some activity. It doesn't matter what you change the value to,
you just have to poke random values in there.

GTK 2 fixes the whole progress bar API mess.

Havoc