Re: Getting the "busy" cursor to display.

2012-04-11 Thread James Tappin
On 11 April 2012 10:51, James Tappin wrote: > > 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. > OK: I think I've figured it. The problem is/was that since the

Re: Getting the "busy" cursor to display.

2012-04-11 Thread James Tappin
On 11 April 2012 09:25, James Tappin wrote: > > > On 11 April 2012 04:36, wrote: > >> On 10 April 2012 18:33, James Tappin 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

Re: Getting the "busy" cursor to display.

2012-04-11 Thread James Tappin
On 11 April 2012 04:36, wrote: > On 10 April 2012 18:33, James Tappin 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

Re: Getting the "busy" cursor to display.

2012-04-11 Thread jcupitt
On 10 April 2012 18:33, James Tappin 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_cu

Re: Getting the "busy" cursor to display.

2012-04-11 Thread Igor Chetverovod
2012/4/11, James Tappin : > On 10 April 2012 11:36, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > >> James Tappin wrote: >> > Is there some other call (or calls) I should be making to force the >> updates >> > to take place? >> >> I use the following for widget updates during background processing: >> >>while