On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 09:41:25PM +0100, Brill IanT wrote:
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> I am writing an application which fetches and parses a large number of urls
> for hyperlinks.
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> My problem is that when the prog is in the middle of the 'fetching' stage,
> the gui becomes almost completely unresponsive.
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> This is not at all what I want. I want the user to be able to interact with
> the gui while this process is going on. Even if just one button, a 'stop'
> button, is the only thing working, I would be satisfied with that.
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> Is there a way to perhaps thread a button or two while urllib2 is busy
> fetching a big list of urls? I ask this with some trepidation because I know
> how thread unfriendly tkinter is.
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> If there is no solution to this, can anyone tell me if reconstructing the
> gui with wx would help with this matter? I don't want to do this because I am
> familiar with tk and find it far easier to work with, but I really have to
> find a way of solving this problem.
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> Thank you very much for reading, and I hope someone can help me out.
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There are several ways to achieve the responsiveness you describe
within Tkinter. I'll be tied up the next couple of days; I hope
an answer that delayed still helps you.
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