cool work, that would be a great thing to have.
On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 16:16 -0400, Allen Taylor wrote: > I was given the task of upgrading a Python/Tkinter GUI application to > the latest versions of Python and Tk. After a while, I realized that > the application had not been written in a thread-safe manner. Multiple > threads would simply use the Tk object directly. The application > apparently ran fine (i.e., didn't crash!) using older versions of > Python (2.2) and Tk (8.3), but it started to have serious problems > (i.e., crashing) after using the latest versions. > > The problem is that there isn't enough budget to fix the whole > application. So, I invested a bit of time to develop mtTkinter, a > thread-safe version of Tkinter. Importing mtTkinter actually modifies > the original Tkinter in such a way to make it thread-safe, recognizing > and diverting out-of-thread calls to the Tk object creation thread via > a queue and an 'after' event. I think it works quite well, requiring > basically no changes to the application other than to import mtTkinter > instead of (or in addition to) Tkinter. Even packages that use Tkinter > (e.g., Pmw) benefit. > > I would like to contribute this module (single file, about 160 lines) > to the Python community, but I don't know how. I'm new to Python and > am not initiated in the deep Pythonic developer world. Can someone > give me some pointers? Many thanks. > > > Allen B. Taylor > MDA > 9445 Airport Road > Brampton, ON L6S 4J3 > 905-790-2800 ext. 4350 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > Tkinter-discuss mailing list > Tkinter-discuss@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tkinter-discuss
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