[pygtk] gtk main loop alternatives

[Greg Ewing]

Donn wrote:
>>you have to do background work like this one, you need some kind of
>>multithreading.
>>
> 
> Blimey. I have managed to get this far in life without ever looking at 
> threads. I suppose it's high time ...

That's not the only way. You can use gobject.timeout_add()
to arrange for a function to be called at regular intervals.
That function can then do whatever the body of your while
loop would have done.

--
Greg