Re: Why doesn't my label show up in the window

2012-08-27 Thread Olivier Sessink
On 08/27/2012 09:30 AM, Frank Cox wrote: > My mailserver is small and I need to pace the email that I send to it to avoid > DOS-ing it. Therefore, I inject a pause of a fixed number of seconds between > sending each outbound email. > > If I'm not allowed to pause the program, then how shall I cr

Re: Trouble maximizing windows on MS Windows

2012-08-27 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 14:27:22 +1000 Jared Henley wrote: > Does anyone have a clue about how to solve this? I've trawled the 'net > and this list and come up with nothing. I'm probably the last person to try to provide a usable answer to anyone's question on this topic since I've just started lea

Re: Why doesn't my label show up in the window

2012-08-27 Thread Colomban Wendling
Le 27/08/2012 11:05, Colomban Wendling a écrit : > Le 27/08/2012 00:20, Frank Cox a écrit : >> On Sun, 26 Aug 2012 22:49:26 +0200 >> Colomban Wendling wrote: >> >>> For example, I attached a dummy program that replicates yours but using >>> threading. >> >> Thanks loads for all of the information

Re: Why doesn't my label show up in the window

2012-08-27 Thread Colomban Wendling
Le 27/08/2012 00:20, Frank Cox a écrit : > On Sun, 26 Aug 2012 22:49:26 +0200 > Colomban Wendling wrote: > >> For example, I attached a dummy program that replicates yours but using >> threading. > > Thanks loads for all of the information! Unfortunately, the dummy program > that > you attach

Re: Why doesn't my label show up in the window

2012-08-27 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi; On 27 August 2012 08:30, Frank Cox wrote: > On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 08:13:30 +0100 > Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > >> another thing is that if you feel you need to call sleep() anywhere in >> a GUI then you are doing it wrong on an epic scale. the first rule of >> mainloop-driven toolkits (such as GTK

Re: Why doesn't my label show up in the window

2012-08-27 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 08:13:30 +0100 Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > another thing is that if you feel you need to call sleep() anywhere in > a GUI then you are doing it wrong on an epic scale. the first rule of > mainloop-driven toolkits (such as GTK+) is: you do not block the main > loop. the second rule

Re: Why doesn't my label show up in the window

2012-08-27 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi; On 27 August 2012 07:40, Frank Cox wrote: > Both of the attached modifications of the program appears to work properly > every > time. > > So is my problem that the label isn't actually ready to be drawn on the first > call to sleep() for some reason? you still fail at understanding the bas