I have threading working in Python and PyQt...kind of I think. I have used PumpThead on linux, though I havn't tried to push it much, just looked at the examples. I'm writing a stand alone tool outside of Maya at the moment.
Cheers On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Hradec <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
