[pygtk] Threads in PyGTK: keep typing while ping-ing

[Frédéric]

On mardi 17 février 2009, Mamahita Sela wrote:

> Any help would be appreciated :)

You start a thread using gobject.timeout, but you wait for the end of the 
thread at the same place; so, the thread is useless, there. Don't forget 
that gobject-timeout is exectud in tha GTK mainloop, so, when it is doing 
something, GTK events are not refreshed.

You have several ways to do waht you want:

1) using gobject.timeout, and laucnh the thread, but do not wait for the 
end (do not call join)

2) launching only one thread, and in the run method, do an endless loop, 
pinging and sleeping

3) same as one, but call thread.start_new_thread...

Hope this helps.

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    Frédéric

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