M0E Lnx wrote: > Hi all, > > Some of you may have seen my project... a GUI installer for VectorLinux. > I've gotten the functionality parts to work, and it's all good. I do > have one annoyance that I can't shake and this is where I need help. > > While packages are being installed, I have a scrollview that scrolls > through the credits of all the people making the distro possible. Sort > of like movie credits. > The names come from a text file, and each name is turned into a > textlabel inside the scrollview. A timer object automatically handles > the scrolling (set to 25-50). > > The problem is that I need this to sroll while a bunch of shell > commands run in the background. > These shell commands being executed are really packages being > installed, so depending on the size of the package, the system may > take longer to free up the process object. > > The timer object lags while the shell process is running in the > background, so the scrolling is not smooth at all. > The timer object and its event are not at all related to the function > that runs the shell processes. It resides on a separate function on a > separate module. > > Any one have any pointers I could follow? > > Thanks > Shooting from the hip: since you are already root, could you nice yourself up a little bit? Conversely, could you nice the processes that you created down?
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