Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > People with a fear of threaded programming almost certainly never grew > up on OS/2. :) I learned about GUI programming thus: Write your > synchronous message handler to guarantee that it will return in an > absolute maximum of 0.1s, preferably a lot less. If you have any sort > of heavy processing to do, spin off a thread. It was simply the normal > way to do things.
That is still the best way to do it, IMHO. As I recall, on BeOS the operating system would even spawn a new thread to handle each GUI event. Pervasive multithreading is great for creating responsive user interfaces and running multimedia. Sturla -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
