Re: [Gtk2hs-users] textBufferSetText first and than sth else

[Axel S. <Axe...@en...>]

Hi Bernhard,

On Oct 4, 2009, at 13:53, Bernhard Lehnert wrote:

> Hello list!
>
> I wrote a programm to make up some data for some other program. The  
> idea
> is that my prog computes some output, displays the output in a  
> textview
> and starts another programm with the same information that has just  
> been
> displayed in the textview.
>
> I call
>
> textBufferSetText textBufferOut output
>
> and then start the other prog (runInteractiveCommand and
> waitForProcess).
> It basically works fine just that even though the textBufferSetText is
> called first, the data is actually shown after the other program is
> finished.
>
> Is there a way to wait for gtk/gtk2hs to actually show the data before
> proceeding?

I'm not sure what your aim is and what you see at the moment. If you  
want to avoid that the TextView updates it's content for a while, you  
can use signalBlock and signalUnblock to block the 'exposeEvent'.

Axel.