[SciPy-user] Re: [SciPy-dev] New implementation for gui_thread

[Prabhu Ramachandran]

Hi,

>>>>> "PP" == Pearu Peterson <pearu at scipy.org> writes:

    PP> I have succesfully finished implementing new hooks for
    PP> importing wxPython to its own thread. The working idea is that
    PP> all wxPython extension modules (that contain only low-level
    PP> functions) are transparently replaced with wrappers that
    PP> direct wx execution to a different thread so that Python
    PP> prompt will be available for interactive work even when a
    PP> wxPython application is running.

Nice!  I briefly looked at the code and from what I can see you
transparently wrap the builtin functions used inside all the wxPython
functions.  This means apply is wrapped and therefore everything works
correctly?

I've managed to work around the kiva_agg build problem by building the
offending code with gcc-3.0.  How does one specify to python setup.py
to choose gcc-3.0 instead of vanilla gcc?  Setting the environment
variable CC does not appear to help.

Anyway, the new gui_thread works really nicely.  I like the fact that
you don't have to wait before you run the next statement since you
wait while importing wxPython.  However, the new gui_thread appears to
have trouble when quitting the interpreter:

In [1]: from gui_thread import wxPython_thread; wxPython_thread()
In [2]: from chaco.wxplt import *
In [3]: p=plot([1,2])
In [4]: close()
In [5]: 
Do you really want to exit ([y]/n)? 
Exception in thread Thread-221:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/threading.py", line 408, in __bootstrap
    self.run()
  File "/usr/local/stow/scipy/lib/python2.2/site-packages/gui_thread/wxBackgroundApp.py", line 65, in run
    exec self.cmd in self.globs,self.locs
  File "<string>", line 1, in ?
AttributeError: wxBackgroundApp instance has no attribute 'event_catcher'


cheers,
prabhu