I've been working on a recipe organizer for my wife using Perl and GTK. It's been really fun, and I've learned a lot. However, I can't figure out how to update a CList in a window. Here's my code to initially create the clist and put it in the window (this works fine): 
 #get the recipe list in the main windows
my $recipe_clist = show_recipe_list();

## pack everything in ##
$window_main->set_contents( $recipe_clist);

## show everything in the main windows ##
show_all $window_main;

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Here is my subroutine to refresh it (doesn't work): 
sub refresh_main_window {
        $recipe_clist->hide();
        $recipe_clist = show_recipe_list() || die "Problem on exchange
+: $!";
        $recipe_clist->show_now() || die "Problem on show: $!";
}

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My instinct was to hide the CList (which happens), redefine the CList, then redisplay it in the window (never happens -- thus my problem).

The error message returned from the "$recipe_clist->show_now()" line says Resource temporarily unavailable .

Any solutions or ideas for further investigation?

In reply to refreshing a GTK widget by melguin

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