Hello,
Thanks for the reply. I'm puzzled here; I have a camera running in
the background grabbing frames from the camera; running some preprocessing
on the frames and then presenting the image on the window. I'm also
thinking of recording some entries into a database and possibly making some
network calls when the app is runnign in an 'admin' mode. I've programmed
Java, .NET and so on and the normal method I would use for this is to run
the camera in one thread in the background, then if I make remote calls or
execute lengthy databse queries from an event on the form (clicking a button
or somethign like that). If I don't use threads for this then what would be
the 'typical' pyGTK method to handle both background tasks and executing
lengthy events from GUI events.
I'm asking because I don't want to use a paradigm from another experience
which is not suitable to what I'm trying to do with python and gtk. Thanks
for your help.
Cheers,
Neil
On 14 May 2010 19:09, Neil Muller
<[email protected]<drnlmuller%[email protected]>
> wrote:
> On 14 May 2010 19:48, Neil Benn <[email protected]> wrote:
> > This starts up as you would expect, printing a and b to the screen as the
> > threading time time slicing allows. However once the PyGTK window has
> opened
> > - these threads just freeze.
>
> To use threads, you need to enable pygtk's support for threads by
> calling gtk.gdk.threads_init().
>
> http://unpythonic.blogspot.com/2007/08/using-threads-in-pygtk.html is
> a good brief overview of how to use pygtk and threads.
>
> It's also worthwhile reading the gtk+ notes on threading at
> http://developer.gimp.org/api/2.0/gdk/gdk-Threads.html , especially if
> you're trying to write something portable between X11 and Windows.
>
> I would, however, recommend looking at alternative options, such as
> multiprocessing, carefully first, before committing yourself to a
> threaded solution.
>
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>
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