[Kde-perl] a little question

[Thomas Fjellstrom]

On January 7, 2004 05:03 pm, Rob wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 January 2004 18:36, Germain Garand wrote:
> > > the text in the textedit became "i'm going to download a
> > > linux distro iso" only when the download is finished (and
> > > the esecution of the sub "prova" is terminated). Is there
> >
> > maybe you need to understand better the concept of event loop
> > driven programs. There is nothing magically happening in the
> > background, it's all very sequential.
>
> I don't think he wants anything to happen in the background here,
> I think he just wants to know how to force a repaint of his
> textedit control before executing that wget. ;)  Would something
> like select(undef, undef, undef, 0.1) (sleep 0.1 seconds) cause
> the Qt event loop to do its stuff or is there maybe some way to
> force a redraw?
>
> Admittedly, I would want to do what you suggest in the case of
> downloading an ISO since you kinda need a progress meter for
> something that large.

I'd say $app->processEvents(); would do it. I use that in a function that 
grabs a file via LWP, and updates a Qt progress meter/dialog.

> Rob
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