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  Re: threads with gtk gui problem andy baxter <andy@earthsong.free-online.co.uk> - 2011-05-14 19:51 +0100

#5380 — Re: threads with gtk gui problem

On 14/05/11 14:12, Andy Baxter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm working on adding a Gtk GUI to a python program. Its main function 
> is to read raw data from an arduino board over USB, and convert it to 
> MIDI note/controller events to be sent to another program. I've had it 
> working fine with just a command line interface, but when I replaced 
> the command line with a Gtk interface, I started having problems 
> getting the thread that reads the USB port to run.

I've solved this by adding 'import gobject' and 'gobject.threads_init()' 
to the start of the program. Looks like if you don't do this then the 
gtk main loop never releases the python threading lock to other threads.

andy

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