yes, it is common to more or less all GUI toolkits, regardless of OS platform.
>Isn't there a way to shortly stop calculations (for a necessary minimum >of time) and let the GUI gather possible events? Could this work >this way somehow? Any suggestions? somewhere inside your calculations, call this reasonably often: while (gtk_events_pending()) { gtk_main_iteration(); } that will update the GUI while your calculations proceed. --p _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list