"jim Pharis" wrote: > I have an external synchronous library call that takes a while to > complete. I want to display a progress bar well I'm waiting. > > The problem is, even when the progress bar is in the thread in a loop > calling gtk_progress_bar_pulse, the progress bar still looks like its > frozen.
Graphical updates (or any other signs of life in a GTK+ application) only occur when the GTK+ main loop gets entered. This is either the case when a handler (your library call) finishes or gtk_main_iteration() gets invoked from within a handler. You will want to use the 2nd method. Basically, after each gtk_progress_bar_pulse() you should do this: while (gtk_events_pending ()) gtk_main_iteration (); See: http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-General.html#gtk-events-pending Possibly also helpful for your understanding: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-app-devel-list/2006-February/msg00266.html _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list