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

[JoN <jo...@we...>]

Much thanks Mike and Shane, I'll look into these.

Cheers
Jon



Quoting Shane Holloway <sha...@ie...>:

> ipython is certainly doing this.  I saw the demo at PyCon, and have  
> been using it to great effect in debugging and interacting with my wx  
> app.
> 
>  > ipython -wthread
> 
> Works for wxPython guis.  --help gives more options and a bit more  
> insight into it.  I'd have a look at what they did to see if it will  
> work for you as is, or for your own cmd-based interactive app.
> 
> -Shane
> 
> On Mar 12, 2007, at 10:37 PM, Mike C. Fletcher wrote:
> 
> > 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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