Stefan Behnel wrote: > Christopher King, 29.07.2011 17:08: >> On Thursday, July 28, 2011, Dave Angel wrote: >>> On 07/28/2011 08:32 PM, Christopher King wrote: >>>> >>>> Dear Tutor Dudes, >>>> I have a socket Gui program. The only problem is that socket.recv >> waits >>>> for a response, which totally screws Tkinter I think. I tried making >>>> the timeout extremely small (it was alright if I didn't receive >>>> anything, I was excepting that a lot) but I think that screwed socket. >>>> Anyone have >> words >>>> of wisdom. >>>> >>>> Sincerely, >>>> Me >>>> >>> Sure: >>> >>> Do the socket I/O on a separate thread. >> >> I was afraid of that. > > Understandable. However, as I already said, you don't need to do that, > just go the obvious route.
While searching for http://effbot.org/zone/tkinter-threads.htm I stumbled upon http://effbot.org/pyfaq/can-i-have-tk-events-handled-while-waiting-for-i-o.htm which looks even simpler indeed. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
