I'm making a GUI in maya using python only and I'm trying to see which
is more efficient. I'm trying to populate an optionMenuGrp / combo box
whose contents come from os.listdir(folder). Now this is fine if the
folder isn't that full but the folder has a few hundred items (almost in
the thousands), it is also on the (work) network and people are
constantly reading from it as well. Now I'm trying to write the GUI so
that it makes the interface, and using threading - Thread, populate the
box. Is this a good idea? Has anyone done this before and have
experience with any limitations on it? Is the performance not
significant?
Thanks for any advice
Why don't you try it and see?
It's not like populating a combobox in Tkinter with the contents of
os.listdir requires a large amount of effort. Just try it and see whether
it performs well enough.
In my experience, a generic combobox with hundreds or thousands of elements is
difficult and annoying to use. Not sure if the Tkinter version has scroll bars
or auto-completion, but if not you may want to subclass and add those features.
Ramit
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