On 11 April 2012 09:25, James Tappin <jtap...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 11 April 2012 04:36, <jcup...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 10 April 2012 18:33, James Tappin <jtap...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately in this case it doesn't help. >> (I >> > have also tried gdk_display_flush and gdk_window_flush, but still the >> same >> > story). >> >> Here's a tiny test program that works for me with gtk2. It just uses: >> >> gdk_window_set_cursor( win->window, busy_cursor ); >> gdk_flush(); >> >> J >> >> >> That program works, as does a translation into Fortran. But I'm still not > having any joy with my display monitor. Maybe the only convenient fix is to > show a window with a message "Reading database" during the read and then > create the monitor afterwards. > > To Igor: I thought that a progress bar in activity mode had to be prodded > to show the animation, which is not possible while I'm doing the read. > > I'm now really confused -- I've reordered some of the code so that the set_cursor call precedes putting a message in the status bar. And the status bar updates but not the cursor. _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
