Re: [gedit-list] Gedit build plugin in python, need help: Thread doesn't start/run.

[Paolo Borelli <pborelli katamail com>]

Il giorno gio, 26/07/2007 alle 15.53 +0200, Jan Niklas Hasse ha scritto:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I'm German, so I'm sorry if my English is bad. I'm currently
> developing a plugin for gedit for building. There is a plugin, but i
> try to implement auto-save before building, double-click should brings
> you to the line where the error is, and execution if building was
> successful. 
> 
> I'm using python (which i don't know much) but now I've got a big
> problem: I'm starting a Python-Thread which executes the building
> command (scons or make). But the Thread doesn't "run". Only if i'm
> doing something with gedit, like minimizing it or opening a new file.
> I don't have an idea why this happens, so maybe you can help me. 
> 
> Any clues you can give me would be great, or if you know a place where
> I could also ask. The plugin is attached.
> 

Hi Jan-Nik,

	using python threads from within a plugin is not supported. Honestly I
am not sure what is wrong with it but it's known that they block the UI.
My suggestion is that you avoid threads and instead spawn a separate
project to run the build into. You can take a look at what the External
Tools plugin does[1].

By the way, this is the right place to ask or you can come on irc (I saw
in the logs you asked there but I was not around at the time)

ciao
	Paolo


[1] In fact the external tools plugins allows to run make, scons etc way
more easily by writing a simple shell script, though it is not able to
provide ad-hoc features like click-on-error-moves-to-error-line.

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