On 24.09.06 13:16:11, Detlev Offenbach wrote: > On Sunday 24 September 2006 12:55, Dave S wrote: > > My main window has a progress bar in it. When I click a button my script > > starts a thread for a backend script that takes some time to run. > > > > The backend script passes data including its progress to my main script via > > a FIFO, now I have a problem. > > > > The FIFO is providing progress data that is being written to the GUI with > > self.progressBar1.setProgress(pc, 100) but nothing is being shown until my > > script exits. > > > > So the GUI is not updated while I am in a while loop looking for FIFO data > > ? If so how do you guys get around this ? > > Try QApplication.processEvents() after the setProgress call.
Or use events to communicate the progress. I haven't had the experience yet, but many qt and kde developers say that processEvents is evil and should be avoided, it might have mysterious side effects. Andreas -- You may be gone tomorrow, but that doesn't mean that you weren't here today. _______________________________________________ PyKDE mailing list [email protected] http://mats.imk.fraunhofer.de/mailman/listinfo/pykde
