Thanks, yes this helps. Actually I came across this solution too, a few minutes ago :)
Christian Adam Zimmerman wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
