Fwd: Re: [pygtk] button queue

[Tony Nelson]

At 5:31 PM -0700 7/31/06, Mr Jason Cupp wrote:
>I don't know if I'm doing this mailing list right, but anyway:
>I tried making a method that either makes a button insensitive or
>sensitive according to the data that I pass it using
>self.button.set_sensitive(True) or self.button.set_sensitive(False).  This
>is what was suggested.  For some reason it didn't work.  The program is
>supposed to make the buttons insensitive, then play the audio file using
>pymedia, and time.sleep() until audio is finished playing, then it makes
>the buttons sensitive again.  But it never makes it insensitive during
>this time.  So I connected 2 other buttons one that makes sensitive, and
>another that makes insensitive, just to see whether the method works or
>not.  It does work when I click the buttons, but it does not work when the
>program automatically tries to turn them off, play audio, then turn them
>back on.  So the method in itself works.  Also in the method I put a 
>print 'sensitive' and print 'insensitive'  to see if the program is
>calling the method when it is supposed to, and it is.  Any more
>suggestions on why this would happen?

Yes.  In order to make GTK seem faster, all the work was moved to idle
time.  You will need to idle a bit before starting the sound.  What I do is:

def gtkeat():
    while gtk.events_pending():
        gtk.main_iteration(False)

Call gtkeat() after changing the sensitivity, and before starting the sound.
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