Disable Button while Thread does some work

Hi,

I want a button to kick off processing, and for the button to be
disabled
while processing is going on. The code below does this. However,
I can’t click the button twice in a row, I need to click elsewhere
(within the
larger app, or outside it) and then come back to the button
for the click to work.

Why is this so? What am i missing? Or is there a better way to do
this?

Ruby 1.8.4, gtk-win32-2-8-18-rc1, ruby-gtk2-0-14-1

Thanks,
Martin

Here’s the code:

require ‘gtk2’
Gtk.init
win = Gtk::Window.new

button = Gtk::Button.new( “Do it” )

win.add( button )

button.signal_connect(“clicked”){
if( button.sensitive? )

 button.sensitive=false

 Thread.new{
   puts "running process"
   sleep 2
   button.sensitive=true
 }

end
}

win.show_all

Gtk.main


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Martin P. wrote:

try the modified one i attached, you might get the idea from it.
while the button is insensitive it wont accept your clicks.

balint

Dobai-Pataky Bálint wrote:

Why is this so? What am i missing? Or is there a better way to do this?

try the modified one i attached, you might get the idea from it.
while the button is insensitive it wont accept your clicks.

Thanks, but I didn’t explain myself clearly! That is exactly the
behaviour I
want!

However, once the processing is done, and the button becomes sensitive
again,
the button only responds to clicks once the app has lost focus. If I
click on the button, leave the mouse where it is, wait for the
processing to
finish and the button to become sensitive, and I click again, that click
and
all following clicks are ignored until I move the focus to another
window,
and then come back to the app and try to click again, which works.

I guess it’s a problem with threads and what button.sensitive=true does,
and when it does it, which I don’t understand (yet!).

Martin


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Martin P. wrote:

However, once the processing is done, and the button becomes sensitive again,
the button only responds to clicks once the app has lost focus. If I
click on the button, leave the mouse where it is, wait for the processing to
finish and the button to become sensitive, and I click again, that click and
all following clicks are ignored until I move the focus to another window,
and then come back to the app and try to click again, which works.

I guess it’s a problem with threads and what button.sensitive=true does,
and when it does it, which I don’t understand (yet!).

the example script we shared works as expected here.
dev-ruby/ruby-gtk2-0.16.0
dev-lang/ruby-1.8.5_p12
Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9

Dobai-Pataky Bálint wrote:

the example script we shared works as expected here.
dev-ruby/ruby-gtk2-0.16.0
dev-lang/ruby-1.8.5_p12
Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9

Ok, looks like I need to upgrade.
Thanks for your help,
Martin.


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