[Java-gnome-developer] Keeping GUI responsive with java-gnome

[Björn H. <hu...@sr...>]

Hello,

I am having trouble keeping my GUI responsive while doing a lengthy 
operation. This is what I found on a code writing guide for Rhythmbox: 
"Many times when some code has to perform a long computation or task, it 
is actually a small task which is repeated many times." Well, this is 
exactly the way my lengthy operation works. An idea is to insert a small 
loop that checks for pending events each time the innermost loop is 
entered (rather than using threads):

while (gtk_events_pending()) {
            gtk_main_iteration();
}

At least that's the way how I could do it in C. And in fact, there have 
been equivalents for these methods in java-gnome (Gtk.eventsPending() 
and Gtk.mainIteration()). Unfortunately these equivalents no longer 
exist in version 4. Can anyone tell me why these methods were removed 
and what's the best way to do what I want?

Björn Hurling