On Sunday 24 September 2006 13:44, Andreas Pakulat wrote: > 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.
Which ones? Detlev -- Detlev Offenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ PyKDE mailing list [email protected] http://mats.imk.fraunhofer.de/mailman/listinfo/pykde
