Re: questions to anyone who uses wxPython

[Dermot Doran]

Hi

 

the "wxPython in Action" provides a very good explanation as to how to handle this sort of problem using a combination of pure Python threads and the wx.CallAfter function.  Also if you want more help on this you can join the wxPython mailing list via www.wxpython.org.

 

Here is a small example of what I'm talking about that uses a Queue object to get a background thread to await work from the main gui thread.  Note it is VERY important that all GUI updates are performed by the main thread in a wxPython program.

 

import wx
import threading
import Queue

class WorkerThread(threading.Thread):
  
 def __init__(self, callBack):
  threading.Thread.__init__(self)
  self.callBack = callBack
  self.work_queue = Queue.Queue()
  self.setDaemon(True)
 
 def run(self):
 
  wx.CallAfter(self.callBack, "Thread starting up...")
  work_to_be_done = True
  
  while work_to_be_done:
   req = self.work_queue.get(True)
   # Go and perform some long lasting task here!
   wx.CallAfter(self.callBack, "Sorry I was kind of busy just now!")
    
 def helloThere(self):
   self.work_queue.put_nowait("This could be an object")  
    
    
class MyFrame( wx.Frame):
 
 def __init__(self):
  wx.Frame.__init__(self, None, -1, "Testing wxCallback and Python threads")
  
  self.worker_thread = WorkerThread(self.logMessage)
  
  panel = wx.Panel(self)
  test_btn = wx.Button(panel, -1, "Hello!")
  self.log = wx.TextCtrl(panel, -1, "", style=wx.TE_MULTILINE|wx.TE_RICH2|wx.TE_READONLY)
  
  sizer = wx.BoxSizer(wx.VERTICAL)
  sizer.Add(self.log , 1, wx.EXPAND|wx.ALL, 5)
  sizer.Add(test_btn, 0, wx.ALIGN_CENTER_HORIZONTAL)
  panel.SetSizer(sizer)
  
  self.Bind(wx.EVT_BUTTON, self.onTestBtn, test_btn)
  self.Bind(wx.EVT_CLOSE, self.onCloseWindow)

  self.worker_thread.start()
  
 def onTestBtn(self, evt):
  self.worker_thread.helloThere()
  
  
 def onCloseWindow(self, evt):
  self.Destroy()
  
  
 def logMessage(self, msg):
  self.log.AppendText (msg)
  self.log.AppendText("\n")
 
if __name__ == '__main__':
 app = wx.PySimpleApp()
 frm = MyFrame()
 frm.Show()
 app.MainLoop()

 

Cheers!!

 

Dermot.

 

On 19 Jul 2006 22:52:09 -0700, Frank Millman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

damacy wrote:
> hello. i'm using wxPython as my GUI package and whenever my program
> executes a long process which takes at least 2 or 3 seconds, the user
> interface gets corrupted while executing the progrocess during the
> period.
>
> i have tried the following lines of code...
>
> frame = mainwindow(None, -1, 'my program')
> ...
> ...
> frame.UpdateWindowUI()
>
> and it did not make any difference at all.
>
> could anyone help me?

I don't really understand the question - what do you mean when you say
the user interface gets corrupted?

Nevertheless, the following pointer may help -

http://tinyurl.com/hj84l

It is an article in the wxPyWiki that discusses various ways of
handling longrunning tasks.

HTH

Frank Millman

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