[pygtk] Downloading a file without locking the GUI

[John Stowers]

On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 12:53 +0200, Timo wrote:
> I want to download a file by pressing a button in my GUI, all works so 
> that's okay. Offcourse my GUI locks up during the download.
> I tried some things like writing a thread and using gobject.idle_add. 
> But none of these worked.
> Anyone can point me out to some kind of example or tutorial?

The thread approach should work fine. You must have made a mistake
somewhere. I use this approach when using threads in gtk applications

http://www.johnstowers.co.nz/blog/index.php/2007/03/12/threading-and-pygtk/

John

> 
> Thanks.
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