Coding with Glade

[Gawain]

Discovered the joy of using Glade to create nice pretty gui's, however I think I'm doing this a bit goofy.....

I have a computer simulation run (go through a whole bunch of iterations) once a user presses a button. All the code is pretty much in the "on_button1_clicked" function. Does what I want - the user (aka a student) can enter some variables and then the simulation runs using the inputed data. However, now the window is unresponsive until the simulation finishes. So no exit button, for example.

There is probably a better way of doing this, but googling didn't reveal it. Anyone on here use Glade and have any ideas? Can a "on_button_clicked" function be activated while another button clicked function is doing its thing? Or should I be putting my simulation iterations somewhere else?

[RobinVossen]

You should fork your code when that happens =)

[Gawain]

"fork" - thanks, I'll have to look into that!

My, probably silly, way of solving it was to run gtk_main_iteration during my simulation iteration. It looks pretty good. I have a nice gui, it pipes to gnuplot for some run time pretty pics, and students can enter constants and retrieve data. Although Im sure my students will thoroughly test it for any flaws