[pygtk] Need help with spawn_async and callback

[Robert Schroll]

On 07/25/2010 08:46 PM, Tony Freeman wrote:
> In short: What do I need to do in order to get the text being generated
> by my child process to show up in the textview?

This doesn't answer your question, but have you considered running the 
child inside a vte.Terminal?  Faced with a similar problem, I created a 
window containing a vte.Terminal and then used 
vte.Terminal.fork_command() [1] to launch the child process.  The 
terminal will emit the 'child-exited' signal when the child exits (how 
convenient!), at which point I hide the window.  Hooking up the progress 
bar might be more difficult in this case, though.

Good luck,
Robert

[1] As near as I can figure, fork_command() takes two arguments - the 
first is the name of the command to run and the second is a list of 
arguments.  But the first element of this list must be the name of the 
command to run.  I'm sure a UNIX guru could explain why this is the only 
obvious way to do things.