On Apr 21, 2008, at 8:12 PM, Thomas Rosario wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm trying to build a GUI to show console output of an existing > application. What I've done is 'clicked' signal_connect from > Gtk2::Button will execute the application and save the output into a > Gtk2::TextBuffer which will be displayed in Gtk2::TextView. > > At the moment, if the button is pressed, the whole GUI will 'freeze' > and after the application execution is finished, the complete output > is displayed. My question is, how can it be done so textview will be > updated in real time with the console output instead of waiting the > whole execution to be finished.
You need to use a pipe-open to read the output of your helper program from a child process. How do i keep my GUI updating while doing a long file read? http://live.gnome.org/GTK2-Perl/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#head-20b1c1d3a92f0c61515cb88d15e06b686eba6cbc -- It's all very complicated and would take a scientist to explain it. -- MST3K _______________________________________________ gtk-perl-list mailing list gtk-perl-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-perl-list
