On Fri, 01 Sep 2006 21:43:46 +0530 Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I have a small application, written in Python, that uses threads. > The application uses function foo() to download files from the web. As it > reads > data from the web server, it runs a progress bar by calling an install of a > progress bar class. > > When using threads, I get the problem that the progress bar gets over-written > by > the download progress of files from other threads. > > I believe my change has to go into the progress bar class to make it thread > aware. You need some kind of lock. Look at the module threading. There is a class called "Lock". PS: If you use pygtk: I switched from using threads to idle_add and (*). This is much easier and you don't need any locking. # (*) while gtk.events_pending(): gtk.main_iteration() -- Thomas Güttler, http://www.tbz-pariv.de/ Bernsdorfer Str. 210-212, 09126 Chemnitz, Tel.: 0371/5347-917 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
