progress bar use

2012-01-16 Thread Nick Belshaw
HI - hope this is the best mailing list... I would like to implement a progress-bar to make clear to users stuff is happening. Specifics involve loading and pre-processing of files. Some files might be very big requiring some 10's of seconds to do all stuff. At the moment the processing of the fil

Drag-n-Drop behaviour when draging from OpenOffice

2011-03-18 Thread Nick Belshaw
Very grateful for any pointers. I have working code - using PyGtk on Linux - all very nice... but something I am trying to do is not quite right. Dragging a text block from an app - word or spreadsheet - onto a DrawingArea. The dragndrop works -ish. If I drag a file or some text from e.g. Gedit