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Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 11:47:16 +0200
From: Roland Koebler <r.koebler@yahoo.de>
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Subject: Re: How to set my gui?
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Hi,

> These days, GUI programming is to me just
> programming and calling on certain libraries/modules.
+1

> One thing you may want to consider is using your main thread for the
> UI, and spinning off another thread to do your search. But do that
> ONLY if you know you understand threads, and threading in Python.
> Otherwise you'll make your life unnecessarily hard. :)
For simple tasks, you don't need threads, but can use the glib-functions
timeout_add(), idle_add() etc.

Roland