bieff...@gmail.com wrote:
Python has in its standard library a timer class which actually is
implemented as a thread (I think) ...
however, when using a GUI package, I think it is better to use gui-
specific functions for event-driven programming,
to make sure that your code do not mess with GUI event loop and to
work around the lack of thread-safety in some GUI libraries.
This applies to timer/timeouts but also to execute code when specific
I/O events occur ( e.g. the receiving of data from a socket ).
Although I'm not an expert of pywx, a quick search pointed me to this
page:
http://wxpython.org/onlinedocs.php
from which it seams that WxTimerEvent couldbe what you need.
I agree with you that for loading images from local files a thread
should not be needed.
P.S : notice that the documentation refers to the C++ library on which
the python wrapper is built. This is often the case for
python wrapper of GUI libraries. However, the most important ones come
with a rich set of demo programs (and pywx demo suite is quite
complete) from which one can lear what he needs.
Ciao
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FB
The wxTimerEvent does sound attractive - I'll look into that.
Thanks too for the opinion on loading images - gives me some guts to
just give it a try without threading it and see how it goes.
I appreciate the quick input :)
Ross.
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