[maemo-developers] Wierd problem with hildon gtk window progress indicator

[From: Kimmo Hämäläinen]

On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 21:03 +0200, ext Amit Sethi wrote:
> I am writing code in which I have to fetch some data during this time
> I want to show some kind of progress indicator . So i tried using
> hildon progress indicators like this:
> 
> def price_button_pressed(widget,window):
> 	print time.time()		
> 	hildon.hildon_gtk_window_set_progress_indicator(window, 1)		
> 	time.sleep(4)	
> 	print "it should have been now "
> 	sw=SmPriceWindow().new_()
> 	sw.show_all_()	
> 	print time.time()	
> 	hildon.hildon_gtk_window_set_progress_indicator(window, 0)
> 
> window and SmPriceWindow are both stackable windows ... I tried to add
> some time between progress indicator being added to window and
> creation of the SmPriceWindow (during which fetching  takes place) and
> yet when I run the program the progress indicator appears only just
> before the SmPriceWindow is shown ... Why is that ?

Because you don't go to the main loop after setting the progress
indicator?  Use a g_timeout instead of sleep...

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