[PyMOL] Custom Functions are blocking

[Simon D. <ha...@si...>]

I am currently working on a plugin for PyMol that should continuously add
new structures to the PyMol view while the function is running.

This is some demo code:
import time
from pymol import cmd

@cmd.extend
def custom_function(inp):
    for i in range(len(inp)):
        time.sleep(2)
        print(i) # here we would load the structures

However, this doesn't work. It prints in the system console just in time
but not in the Pymol console (and if I call e.g cmd.load("somepdb") also
the structure doesn't get added to the view) until the function has
completed running.

Is there a way around this ?

Thanks,
Simon

*Simon Dürr*
in...@si...
https://simonduerr.eu