Hello, I'm using happily pygtk to develop Horn the user interface for Narval (http://www.logilab.org). It runs very well under Linux, but I'm having big troubles getting something under Windows. It looks like there's something wrong with the thread support in pygtk win32 edition. I checked Hans Breuer patch over pygtk 0.6.4 and it does look like there's a known issue with threading in the patch, from the comments I saw. If we cut down to the skeletton of the app, the implementation is something equivallent to: ----------------------8<----------------------- from gtk import mainloop, timeout_add import time import thread,Queue queue = Queue.Queue(10) def ping_thread(): while 1: t = time.time() print 'ping',t queue.put_nowait(t) time.sleep(0.7) def pong(): try: while 1: t0 = queue.get_nowait() t1 = time.time() print 'pong',t1, t1-t0 except: return 1 thread.start_new_thread(ping_thread,()) timeout_add(1000,pong) mainloop() ---------------------8<---------------------------- This works fine under linux, but under windows (winnt4.0, runnning on a P133), I get pongs comming with a 9 seconds lag. So my question is: * is it just because my NT box is waaaaaay to slow ? * has it something to do with lines 31-32 of the patch which state: +#if defined (_MSC_VER) +#undef WITH_THREAD /* no thread support on win32 yet */ In that case what would be required to implement the thread support on win32 ? I'm not yet very familiar with the innards of the python bindings of gtk nor with the win32 port of GTK+, but I'm ready to get my shirt wet, since I really need this feature. Any help/suggestion welcome. Alexandre Fayolle -- http://www.logilab.com Narval is the first software agent available as free software (GPL). LOGILAB, Paris (France). _______________________________________________ pygtk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk
