Sergei Steshenko <sergst...@yahoo.com> writes: > > Actually, not only I spin the main loop, I also hide the sensitive GUI > elements which may cause new events, i.e. there is, for example, no > physical possibility to change state of normally existing slider (called > "Adjustment") because the sliders are temporarily hidden.
(Gratuituous self promotion alert :-) For interest, in my math-image program I restart a calculation on a change to the gui controls. But my calculation is only perhaps 10 seconds not a couple of minutes and is easy enough to chunk up under an idle handler in the usual way. For a bigger calculation I probably prefer a child process over a thread, as I've yet to see a threading system that doesn't put you in all sorts of danger from crashes and stuff and doesn't in fact hang in certain system calls anyway! _______________________________________________ gtk-perl-list mailing list gtk-perl-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-perl-list
