[pygtk] Threaded PYgtk apps and gtk.main_quit()

Jarek Zgoda jzgoda at o2.pl
Sat Feb 24 07:25:27 WST 2007


Rob Brown-Bayliss napisał(a):

>> If you are targeting win32 I would suggest using
>> "gobject.idle_add(...)" instead if you want to update GTK UI from sub
>> threads.
>> See these FAQ entries for more info:
> 
> The thread does not update the gui, it sits in the background waking
> up from t ime to time to process some data...  The main app watches
> the file on disk for changes (via pyinotify) and then updates the UI

Anyway, many times I saw this as a recommended resolution to "update GUI
from thread" problem. If your thread does not need to update UI, then it
has nothing to to with PyGTK. ;)

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Jarek Zgoda
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