[Python-Dev] Event loops, PyOS_InputHook, and Tkinter

[Michiel Jan Laurens de Hoon]

Noam Raphael wrote:

>On 11/13/05, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
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>>Noam Raphael wrote:
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>>>All that is needed to make Tkinter and Michiels'
>>>code run together is a way to say "add this callback to the input
>>>hook" instead of the current "replace the current input hook with this
>>>callback". Then, when the interpreter is idle, it will call all the
>>>registered callbacks, one at a time, and everyone would be happy.
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>>Except for those who don't like busy waiting.
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>I'm not sure I understand what you meant. If you meant that it will
>work slowly - a lot of people (including me) are using Tkinter without
>a mainloop from the interactive shell, and don't feel the difference.
>It uses exactly the method I described.
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This depends on what kind of extension module you run. I agree, for 
Tkinter you probably won't notice the difference -- although you are 
still wasting processor cycles. However, if graphics performance is 
important, busy-waiting is not ideal.

--Michiel.

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Michiel de Hoon
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Columbia University
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