Re: [PyOpenGL-Users] IDLE, threads and pyopengl

[Mike C. F. <mcf...@vr...>]

JoN wrote:
> And then he realizes he's asked the completely wrong question.
>
> What I meant to ask was:
>
> Can IDLE - or any python command interpreter for that matter? - be run itself as
> a pythread ?
>   
There have been systems that used Idle connected up to a GUI with 
PyOpenGL running in it.  I seem to recall systems with IPython and a Tk 
OpenGL GUI as well.  I haven't done it myself, nor do I know if they 
actually used threads.  Normally what happens is that you need to 
arrange to have two event loops running.  Some GUIs (wxPython, for 
instance) can handle that using threads as long as you make sure that 
your first import of wxPython is in the secondary thread (IIRC).  
Running an interpreter thread using cmd should allow you to run that in 
a background thread and let the GUI use the main thread AFAICS.

I code my own systems using something like the wxPython shell widget 
hooked up to a wxPython GUI, so the system all runs in the same thread, 
but that has its own challenges when you want a user to code (e.g. they 
want to time.sleep() in a script).

HTH,
Mike

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