Thanks for getting back to me, so i assume it is OK to have a very very long file? The sample code i posted here is basically the barebones of the main app. so, combining the GUI-file(gui.py) with main code is acceptable? Separating them into modules was initially the attempt to keep things in order.
On Saturday, September 21, 2013 8:00:29 PM UTC-5, Piet van Oostrum wrote: > stas poritskiy <stascr...@gmail.com> writes: > > > > >> I am working on integration of multiple GUI (Tkinter) elements, such > > >> a progress bar, label update, etc, and throughout my research i > > >> discovered that i need to have Threading modules used to distribute > > >> the calls for GUI update and processing of my main App. > > > > In general your GUI should be in your main process/thread. For example > > your program doesn't run on Mac OS X because you cannot run the GUI in > > another process or thread. > > > > Now if your GUI actions are starting some actions that last more than a > > few tenths of a second, you should run these actions in another thread > > or process (usually a thread will work), otherwise the GUI becomes > > unresponsive. If you want to exchange some information between the GUI > > and that thread/process you can use a Queue object, or just give the > > information from the GUI at the start of the thread. > > > > >> My Application is broken into multiple Classes(modules), and i wanted > > >> to hear your thought on the best practices to implement the Threading > > >> model. > > > > The structure of you modules isn't good. There are circular imports, and > > that is a sign the the design needs to be simplified: > > > > multiProcessLauncher imports gui. > > gui imports multiProcessLauncher. > > > > The latter import isn't necessary. > > > > Instead of > > > > import multiProcessLauncher > > processor = multiProcessLauncher > > name = processor.multiprocessing.current_process().name > > > > you can just use: > > > > import multiprocessing > > name = multiprocessing.current_process().name > > > > My advice would be to just do the GUI in the main module, and if the > > Action needs more time, the create a new Thread or Process in the Action > > class. > > > > -- > > Piet van Oostrum <p...@vanoostrum.org> > > WWW: http://pietvanoostrum.com/ > > PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
