Hi All, I'm converting a large Windows/Mac project to run on Ubuntu, and I'm a little stuck when trying to use a ProgressBar. We have a cross-platform class that assumes I can create a "Progress Monitor" dialog during time-intensive tasks, and then periodically update the progress as the task completes.
The problem that I'm having with using Gtk::ProgressBar seems to be a fundemental one about when dialogs can actually appear in the main window. For example, what I'd like to do is something along the lines of: [in my main thread] ... Start a complex task Create a Progress Monitor dialog and show it Update the dialog as the task progresses Destroy the dialog .... When I try this, nothing shows up *grin*. As far as I can tell, I need to let the run loop process so that the dialog can be shown. (i.e. if I omit the "destroy" step in the above, I see the dialog as soon as I drop out of "my" code in the main thread, but that's too late -- the task is already completed) One way to solve this is, of course, to rewrite all the places that use the Progress Monitor so that the work is done in a thread and the main thread can just be showing the progress bar. I'd hesitate to try that with this code base because of the number of places in cross-platform code that would have to be rewritten. Do any of you have any thoughts? Thanks in advance! -- Garth Upshaw Garth's KidStuff _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
