Re: How do I Block Events in wxPython

2009-12-10 Thread Frank Millman
Stephen Hansen wrote: > > Well if you have a legitimate case for pre-empting the event loop with > these > periodic regular short blocking moments (it seems you may), I think what > you > want to do is overwrite FilterEvent on your App object. You can then make > that flag something you set on th

Re: How do I Block Events in wxPython

2009-12-10 Thread Stephen Hansen
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 6:01 AM, Frank Millman wrote: > > Another approach is to use wnd.CaptureMouse() on a particular control > > which > > doesn't really respond to anything. Just be sure to ReleaseMouse() later > > and > > follow the instructions in the docs about capturing that cancel-captur

Re: How do I Block Events in wxPython

2009-12-10 Thread Frank Millman
Stephen Hansen wrote: > On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Frank Millman wrote: > >> I also need to block events in my wxPython app, though the time duration >> is >> very short. I have a separate thread that sends notification of gui >> events >> to a server, and waits for a response. I do not w

Re: How do I Block Events in wxPython

2009-12-10 Thread Stephen Hansen
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Frank Millman wrote: > Wanderer wrote: > > >I have a wxPython program which does some calculations and displays > > the results. During these calculations if I click the mouse inside the > > dialog the program locks up. If I leave the dialog alone the process > >

Re: How do I Block Events in wxPython

2009-12-09 Thread Frank Millman
Wanderer wrote: >I have a wxPython program which does some calculations and displays > the results. During these calculations if I click the mouse inside the > dialog the program locks up. If I leave the dialog alone the process > completes fine. I have tried running the function from a separate >

Re: How do I Block Events in wxPython

2009-12-09 Thread Dave Angel
Wanderer wrote: Found another strange bug (Strange to me, anyway). int(0.8 * 10.0) 7. Had to change the code to int(0.8 * 10.0 + 0.0001). Floating point is intrinsically imprecise. The value 0.8 cannot be exactly represented in IEEE fp notation (binary). One answer is to round() the r

Re: How do I Block Events in wxPython

2009-12-09 Thread Stephen Hansen
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Wanderer wrote: > Found another strange bug (Strange to me, anyway). int(0.8 * 10.0) = > 7. Had to change the code to int(0.8 * 10.0 + 0.0001). > > http://effbot.org/pyfaq/why-are-floating-point-calculations-so-inaccurate.htm Floating point math is not precise; if

Re: How do I Block Events in wxPython

2009-12-09 Thread Jeff Peck
Philip Semanchuk wrote: On Dec 9, 2009, at 10:42 AM, Wanderer wrote: I have a wxPython program which does some calculations and displays the results. During these calculations if I click the mouse inside the dialog the program locks up. If I leave the dialog alone the process completes fine. I

Re: How do I Block Events in wxPython

2009-12-09 Thread Wanderer
On Dec 9, 11:48 am, r0g wrote: > Wanderer wrote: > > I have a wxPython program which does some calculations and displays > > the results. During these calculations if I click the mouse inside the > > dialog the program locks up. If I leave the dialog alone the process > > completes fine. > > If an

Re: How do I Block Events in wxPython

2009-12-09 Thread r0g
Wanderer wrote: > I have a wxPython program which does some calculations and displays > the results. During these calculations if I click the mouse inside the > dialog the program locks up. If I leave the dialog alone the process > completes fine. If anything in your GUI app takes a non trivial le

Re: How do I Block Events in wxPython

2009-12-09 Thread zeph
The wxPython wiki actually has a page on dealing with long running tasks called from event handlers called (surprise surprise): http://wiki.wxpython.org/LongRunningTasks Hint: the second to last example on that page has the clearest example - using a worker thread object to do your DoEfficiency()

Re: How do I Block Events in wxPython

2009-12-09 Thread Philip Semanchuk
On Dec 9, 2009, at 10:42 AM, Wanderer wrote: I have a wxPython program which does some calculations and displays the results. During these calculations if I click the mouse inside the dialog the program locks up. If I leave the dialog alone the process completes fine. I have tried running the f

How do I Block Events in wxPython

2009-12-09 Thread Wanderer
I have a wxPython program which does some calculations and displays the results. During these calculations if I click the mouse inside the dialog the program locks up. If I leave the dialog alone the process completes fine. I have tried running the function from a separate dialog with Show Modal an