in reply to Pixbuf Animation

you'll need to use system or fork/threads

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Re^2: Pixbuf Animation
by Anonymous Monk on May 05, 2009 at 02:51 UTC
    is there another way? maybe a timeout??
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      No. What's happening here is your long image conversion prevents the GTK events from being processed. This behavior is the same in any other windowing toolkit. The best way to get around this, as the other Anonymous Monk has already said, is to run your conversion process in another thread.
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