On Monday 18 April 2005 11:51, Aristidas Vilkaitis wrote:
> Since i'm quite new to both C and Gtk, i met a problem which i am not
> able to solve. The base of the problem is that i have a task, which
> should fetch several files from the internet. When a button is pressed,
> a new window with a progress bar opens and indicates the progress of the
> task. Basicly, since i thought C is a linear language, i just added
> several system() calls and added gtk_progress_bar_set_fraction between
> them like so:
>
> ...
> system("wget file.a");
> gtk_progress_bar_set_fraction(GTK_PROGRESS_BAR(pb1), 0.3);
> system("wget file.b");
> gtk_progress_bar_set_fraction(GTK_PROGRESS_BAR(pb1), 0.6); ...
>
> and so on.
>
> The result was that the program first executed the system calls, and
> only afterwards did it paint something or tampered with the progress bar.
>
> Why? How to go around this? What to read?
Check out g_spawn_async() in connection with GIOChannel and g_io_add_watch().
You can find an example (which uses wget, even) here:
http://scentric.net/tmp/spawn-async-with-pipes-gtk.c
(Don't use threads for this kind of stuff, it's completely unnecessary and
will cause you more problems than it solves).
Cheers
-Tim
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