Re: [Pythoncard-users] async sockets in python card?

[Arthur E. <ar...@ia...>]

On Sep 24, 2004, at 08:51, Kevin Altis wrote:

> Without seeing the code, it is difficult to say, but are you using 
> threads? If so, you can't access your GUI windows and components 
> directly from the thread(s) handling the sockets. You need to use 
> something that is thread-safe such as the Python Queue module. A 
> couple of samples use threading and Queue and others avoid threads by 
> using generators, but that probably wouldn't work for sockets. If you 
> use something like Twisted then you don't need threads.
>
> There are other possible problems, but again it is a bit difficult to 
> say without seeing some code. If you can zip it up and it isn't too 
> big, then maybe you can send it to the list, otherwise, email me 
> directly.
>
> You might also look at:
>
> http://wiki.wxpython.org/index.cgi/LongRunningTasks

That's a very useful page. The example given uses the wx event 
mechanism and that seems a good solution for my problem. I now see 
passing a reference to the GUI in the thread was causing trouble.

Thanks, I'll give it a try.

Arthur