From: Ned Konz <ned@...>
Date: 2001-08-01T00:28:11+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:18897] Re: Gtk: file selection dialog

On Tuesday 31 July 2001 07:17 am, you wrote:

> The problem is, that the FileSelection dialog only disappears when the
> whole story is done, that is after loading/processing the input file.
> As a consequence, a notification dialog, which should pop up during
> loading in fact shows up last (too late).
>
> I wonder if anybody understands what I'm trying to say and actually
> has a way to solve this...

Well, you could signal a mutex in the callback and let another thread do the 
work.

Or you could set a flag and let something in the idle callback (doesn't Gtk 
have one of these) do the work.

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Ned Konz
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