Timo, I wish to freeze the UI, while an operation is in progress.
Anyways, I am facing another problem. Now, while the root window is frozen, and if I try to unfreeze a child widget - by "set_sensitive(True) - it does not work. Is it expected? If yes, is there a workaround? Thanks and Regards, Ajay On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:44 PM, Timo <timomli...@gmail.com> wrote: > Op 14-08-12 12:21, Ajay Garg schreef: > >> Thanks Timo. >> >> It worked !!! >> >> >> Just one last query :: >> >> When I desensitize the root window, the entire window goes "grayed". >> Is there a way, so that we can prevent the graying out? Ideally, I would >> like no colour change. >> > Maybe it's possible with theming, but I'm not familiar with that. > > I wonder why you want to do that though. From a user's view, it's very > confusing when the window is unresponsive without visual indication. It > instantly reminds me of an application that hangs. > > Cheers, > Timo > >> >> Thanks and Regards, >> Ajay >> >> >> >> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Timo <timomli...@gmail.com >> <mailto:timomli...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Op 14-08-12 06:35, Ajay Garg schreef: >> >> Hi all. >> >> I have four simple questions :) :: >> >> >> a) >> How to block the complete UI (in the sense that no >> user-interaction with the UI is effective), although the UI >> changes take place as usual via the changes emanating from the >> code? >> >> >> b) >> How to block only a widget, while the rest of the UI remains >> unblocked? >> >> >> c) >> How to unblock only a widget, while the rest of the UI remains >> blocked? >> >> >> d) >> How to unblock the complete UI? >> >> >> Do you mean gtk.Widget.set_sensitive(True|False) ? You can use it >> on your toplevel window to disable the whole application or on >> individual widgets. >> >> Cheers, >> Timo >> >> >> Will be grateful for a reply. >> >> >> Thanks and Regards, >> Ajay >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> pygtk mailing list pygtk@daa.com.au <mailto:pygtk@daa.com.au> >> >> http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk >> Read the PyGTK FAQ: http://faq.pygtk.org/ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> pygtk mailing list pygtk@daa.com.au <mailto:pygtk@daa.com.au> >> >> http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk >> Read the PyGTK FAQ: http://faq.pygtk.org/ >> >> > _______________________________________________ pygtk mailing list pygtk@daa.com.au http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk Read the PyGTK FAQ: http://faq.pygtk.org/
