Le mercredi 24 septembre 2008 à 21:45 +1000, Steve Smith a écrit :
> Thanks all for the help.  Unfortunately I've tried this and idle()
> doesn't really fix the  problem as it effectively stops the main loop
> from updating until it is complete.  Unless there's a preemptible
> version of idle() I'm probably going to have to uses threads for now.

Have you considered drawing only part of the image in your idle
fonction?

> Thanks,
> Steve
> 
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Emmanuele Bassi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > gaah, I forgot to add some explanatory word. didn't mean to sound rude.
> >
> > On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 12:12 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 07:01 -0400, Pierre-Luc Beaudoin wrote:
> >>
> >> > Actually, that's not clear from what I gave you, but you can call
> >> > idle_add directly on "gobject":
> >> >
> >> > import gobject
> >> >
> >> > if __name__ == '__main__':
> >> >     #here or anywhere else btw
> >> >     gobject.idle_add(on_idle, data)
> >>
> >>         clutter.main()
> >
> > you need clutter.main() - or any other GLib main loop - otherwise the
> > idle handlers (like the timeout handlers) will not run.
> >
> >> >
> >> > def on_idle(self, data):
> >> >     #do something
> >>         return False   # to remove the idle handler
> >>                        # from the main loop; True will
> >>                        # keep it attached
> >
> > I never remember what's the default behaviour of python, here; Perl
> > would take the return value for the last function and put it on the
> > stack as the return value for the function - so:
> >
> >  sub on_idle {
> >      # do something
> >  }
> >
> > would return what the last function of the block returned, even without
> > an explitic return. this can be confusing and lead to weird bugs.
> >
> > in any case, always put a return value for your idle, timeout and event
> > handlers.
> >
> > ciao,
> >  Emmanuele.
> >
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> > Emmanuele Bassi, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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