Re: Updating GUI during long operation

[Kip Warner <kip thevertigo com>]

On Sun, 2013-04-21 at 11:33 +0100, Chris Vine wrote:
> The code to which you refer does not block, so something else is
> blocking the loop. The point you need to understand is that in normal
> code there will very rarely be a reason to call "while
> Gtk.events_pending(): Gtk.main_iteration()" in a well behaved
> application (although that call does not appear in the file to which
> you refer), and it would need special justification and explanation.
> Furthermore your original posting appeared to indicate ("including the
> following within it...") that those iteration calls were made in some
> idle handler somewhere, which on the face of it is pointless.
>
> Clearly you are doing something wrong, probably at the design level.
> The answer I gave is that most that anyone could give you in the light
> of your somewhat incomplete and ambiguous posting.

Hey Chris. Your message was not very useful again, but thanks anyways.
As you realized after, the problem may be too many graphical related
events through the main loop. I will try adjusting the animation's
framerate and seeing if I can get the worker thread to give a breather
to the main thread which seems to be working when using an idle_add()
callback to trigger an event flush.

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