Re: How to dispaly an Widget during callback processing

[G Hasse <gh raditex se>]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 09:04:24AM +0200, Carlo wrote:
> gtk rapp-informatik de ha scritto lo scorso 13/10/2004 23.46:
> > In my callback have a few longer processes
> > Is ist possible in GTK 1.2 to show a  an information message in a widget 
> > like   "Please wait I am working"
> > I am searching way to force to call gtk_main to show this info widget.
> >
> > I there any call to gtk_main to do this.
>
>   while (gtk_events_pending ()) {
>     gtk_main_iteration ();
>   }

You should never have the UI waiting for som operation to complete.

Put your large amount of work in a separate process and make the
UI communicate with that process. This is fairly simple to do and
the user should be mutch happier.

> > Thanks for help
> > günther
>
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