In article <6c04c7da-6b54-4a49-803f-aac3126e3...@f19g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>, <stephane.bisin...@gmail.com> wrote: >On Apr 18, 8:29=A0pm, Piet van Oostrum <p...@cs.uu.nl> wrote: >> >> By the way, I wonder why you need a timeout in your wait. I think the >> notifications should be sufficient to keep the gui updated. > >The reason is simple: when first downloading the contactss list, I >receive a swarm of *Updated() calls, so if I redraw every time I get a >very bad visual effect and I waste a lot of CPU redrawing something >that will change in a very very short time. Hence the time >constraint... I couldn't come up with something smarter, so...
The redraw thread should keep track of the last time it did a redraw; each time it receives an update event, it should check to see whether it has been more than a specified period of time since the last redraw. -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." --Red Adair -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
