[Gtk-sharp-list] Updating of a window not done right away

[Mathias Tausig]

Am 23. Sep 2008 um 23:43:04 -0400, schrieb Michael Hutchinson:
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 4:51 AM, Mathias Tausig <mtausig at fsmat.at> wrote:
> > Hy!
> >
> > I wrote a class DisplayPanel (see below., which should just display some text right away. The problem is, it just doesn't do that if I start some blocking function after setting the text. If I execute
> >
> > Gtk.Window w = new Gtk.Window("Test");
> > w.Show();
> > for(int i=0;i<20;++i){
> >        DisplayPanel dp = new DisplayPanel("",w);
> >        dp.SetTitle(i);
> >        Thread.Sleep(3000);
> >        dp.Dispose();
> > }
> >
> > sometimes it does display the correct text right away, but sometimes (rather unpredictable, about every third time) I get just an empty Window.
> > Does anyone have an idea, what might cause this?
> 
> You're blocking the main loop. The main GTK loop handles repainting,
> firing events, etc.

I know. But in my class, when calling SetTitle, I have a loop that executes RunIteration as foten as neccesary which, as far as I have understood the loop, should do all the update, as it is executed before the blocking call.

cheers
Mathias