On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 16:54, Brian Granger<ellisonbg....@gmail.com> wrote: > Gael, > > >> Polling at 100Hz is a horrendous solution from a technical point of view. >> I typical have a dozen IPython instances opened, where I have been >> working a while ago, but not doing anything right now, because I am >> planning to come back to it. Having these all poll at a 100Hz wil keep my >> laptop hot, make it switch context all the time, and drain the battery. >> Adobe Flash works that way. I use it as seldom as possible. > > I agree that polling is a non-optimal approach. But, until wx supports > monitoring stdin from within the event loop, we are stuck with polling.
Can you describe the patch you are putting together for wxPython? or is it wxWidgets? Perhaps there is a way for us to monkeypatch the same approach into old versions. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
