[pygtk] call set_label() periodically

[Pietro Battiston]

Il giorno gio, 27/08/2009 alle 01.30 +0430, saeed ha scritto:
> >... and if it happens (usually to accomplish operations which take much
> >time to execute and would freeze the GUI)
> 
> When a function takes a sensible time to execute, to prevent GUI from
> freezing, we can do frequently(mostly in the loop that takes time):
> 
> while gtk.events_pending():
>       gtk.main_iteration_do(False)
> 
> No need to manual multithreading only for this reason.

In my experience, what took time was principally:
- thumbnailing pictures/video,
- retrieving and sending (big) things via Internet/bluetooth

operations which are in a certain sense "atomic" (a single library
call)... and long.

(or did I misunderstand you?)

Pietro