wxPython and threads

[James Matthews]

Sounds like a race condition. is List Ctrl waiting for the gui to return?
Maybe make the processing more then one thread!

On 7/17/07, Stef Mientki <S.Mientki-nospam at mailbox.kun.nl> wrote:
>
> Benjamin wrote:
> > I'm writing a search engine in Python with wxPython as the GUI. I have
> > the actual searching preformed on a different thread from Gui thread.
> > It sends it's results through a Queue to the results ListCtrl which
> > adds a new item. This works fine or small searches, but when the
> > results number in the hundreds, the GUI is frozen for the duration of
> > the search. I suspect that so many search results are coming in that
> > the GUI thread is too busy updating lists to respond to events. I've
> > tried buffer the results so there's 20 results before they're sent to
> > the GUI thread and buffer them so the results are sent every .1
> > seconds. Nothing helps. Any advice would be great.
> >
> maybe you'ld better ask this question in the wxPython discussion group:
>
> wxPython-users at lists.wxwidgets.org
>
> cheers,
> Stef
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