On Mon, 2007-01-10 at 17:49 +0200, Christian Buennig wrote: > But since I prefer to write my plugin in Python: Does anyone have an > idea to implement a server plugin without an extra thread? A solution > might be to let Rhythmbox periodically "tick" my plugin so that the > plugin can inspects its sockets for incoming data with non-blocking IO, > but I do not know how to get such a periodic "tick" from Rhythmbox.
To do specifically what you're asking, you can use gobject.idle_add() or gobject.timeout_add(), which will add set a callback function to be run when rhythmbox is idle (1st), or after a certain time has passed (2nd). These functions run in the main thread, so they shouldn't take too long to execute or the UI will freeze up. There might be a better way to do this, possibly using the gnomevfs async functions, although I don't know if they really apply to running a server. Hope this helps. -- Adam Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CREATIVITY - http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/movingimages/Building_on_the_Past.mpg ALWAYS - http://www.musiccreators.ca/ BUILDS - http://www.ubuntu.com/ ON THE PAST - http://www.theopencd.org/ -- Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer. -- Taken from a .signature from someone from the UK, source unknown _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
