[IPython-dev] Re: [SciPy-dev] Generic gui_thread + IPython: solution already exists!

[Prabhu Ramachandran]

>>>>> "JH" == John Hunter <jdhunter at ace.bsd.uchicago.edu> writes:

>>>>> "Prabhu" == Prabhu Ramachandran <prabhu_r at users.sf.net> writes:
    JH> Oops, sorry, I'm lame.

    JH> This happens in --gthread and --wthread and so doesn't appear
    JH> to be matplotlib related; but for the record I'm using cvs
    JH> matplotlib.

Hmm, I did not know that --gthread also worked, I thought only
-gthread and -wthread worked.  The gthread option is really not doing
anything fancy at all.  All I've added is a function that updates
Tkinter when the timer is called and removed gtk's own mainloop with a
hijacked version.

[...]
    JH> FYI, I had to hack hijack_wx because on my wx, there is no
    JH> wx._core_.  It appears to be wx._core.  I don't know if a
    JH> similar hack needs to be applied to the 2.4 section.

wxPython-2.4 is I think is more reliable and should work out fine.
You'll need my updated patch that I just posted though (it just
changes one line).  

To improve the hijacking can you just check these out and let me know?
Does wx._core have a _core_ attribute?  If so, then you really need to
access wx._core._core_ and hijack that, this works for me also, so if
this works for you, I'll make that the default and we won't need any
of the hasattr checks.

    JH> def hijack_wx():
[...]

Does this hijacked hijack_wx work fine or does it still freeze?

Thanks!
cheers,
prabhu