I can't see my progress bar!

barnacle · **Joined:** Sat Sep 26, 2009 6:41 am **Posts:** 69

No doubt I'm missing something stunningly obvious - but...

I have a textview. I need to do some heavy processing on the text which takes several seconds (or a couple of minutes), so I'd like a progress bar.

Every reference I can find suggests I need to make it:

Code:

   pbar = gtk_progress_bar_new ();
   //gtk_progress_bar_set_text ((GtkProgressBar *) pbar, "Spell-checking entire text");
   gtk_widget_show (pbar);
   while (g_main_context_iteration(NULL, FALSE));

and then I need to update it in a loop. I have one conveniently which changes on a percentage basis...

Code:

      if (((100*gtk_text_iter_get_line(&start))/lines_in_buffer) > last_percent)
      {
         last_percent = (100*gtk_text_iter_get_line(&start))/lines_in_buffer;
         gtk_progress_bar_set_fraction ((GtkProgressBar *) pbar, (double)last_percent/100);
         while (g_main_context_iteration(NULL, FALSE));
         printf("%c%c%c%c%d%% ", 0x08, 0x08, 0x08, 0x08, last_percent);
         fflush(stdout);
      {

This last part is working; the percentage increases on the console and the screen updates through the process - but the progress box never appears.

What am I doing stupid? I see that most of the examples use either threads or a progress box which is part of the main window, but in my innocence I had foolishly assumed that a progress box is such a useful thing that it would be a self-contained window in and of itself - do I have to get all complicated?

Thanks,

Neil

asdfgh2091 · **Joined:** Fri Sep 04, 2009 6:53 am **Posts:** 61

If you want to show a widget, you must put it directly or indirectly in a GtkWindow or some of its derivates.

barnacle · **Joined:** Sat Sep 26, 2009 6:41 am **Posts:** 69

So this means I'd need to set up a child window, put the progress bar in that, and implement callbacks between the main routine and the child?

Meh, complicated... any examples you can point to?

Thanks,

Neil

barnacle · **Joined:** Sat Sep 26, 2009 6:41 am **Posts:** 69

Ah, answering myself - I see I can drop a progress bar on top of the status bar, and I can talk to that directly (the layout is from Glade). I can't see how to proportion the progress bar - and it would be nice to appear/disappear it as required.

It works nicely so far, though.

Neil

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