Are you on linux or win? I know python threading with maya is a problem in linux because the way X11 works, but I don't know if it would work in windows...
Maya docs recommend us to use maya idle to run threads instead of python thread module... check out this page for more info: http://download.autodesk.com/us/maya/2009help/index.html?url=Python_Python_and_threading.htm,topicNumber=d0e178412 I don't know if it would work in your case... let me know how it goes... -H On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 9:19 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey Everyone, > > This isn't so much a Maya python questions right now, but I hope > someone can direct me. I've built a UI in PyQt and have a FileDialog > that opens, once the user browses to a folder, I run a function. When > the function is running, the original UI goes blank until the function > has finished. What process would I go through to run the function in a > thread so the UI doesn't become unresponsive? Should I use threading > module? Any help would be great > > Cheers, > Shawn > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Yours, Maya-Python Club Team. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
