pygtk+: How to display a second image 3 seconds after the first?

Question

I am writing a pygtk+ program that would allow a user to navigate thru a book by using buttons in a toolbar. On opening the program, I would like to display a "title" or "cover page" image for a few seconds while the GUI is completed. Then a background image would be displayed. This script only displays the second image after a delay of 3s.

import gi, time
gi.require_version('Gtk', '3.0')
from gi.repository import Gtk, Gdk

class FirstScrn(Gtk.Window):

    def __init__(self):
        Gtk.Window.__init__(self)

        image = Gtk.Image.new_from_file("../images/first.png")
        self.add(image)
        self.show_all()
        time.sleep(3)
        self.remove(image)
        image = Gtk.Image.new_from_file("../images/second.png")
        self.add(image)
        self.show_all()

first = FirstScrn()
first.connect("delete-event", Gtk.main_quit)

Gtk.main()

How could I achieve the desired effect?

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Since you are using Python3 and Gtk3, you would actually tag your question as PyObject. — theGtknerd, Jan 15 '18 at 13:44
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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 15 '18 at 13:51

This might be a possible solution:

import gi, time
gi.require_version('Gtk', '3.0')
from gi.repository import Gtk, Gdk, GLib

class FirstScrn(Gtk.Window):

    def __init__(self):
        Gtk.Window.__init__(self)

        image = Gtk.Image.new_from_file("../images/first.png")
        self.add(image)
        self.show_all()
        GLib.timeout_add_seconds(3, self.show_next_image, image)

    def show_next_image (self, previous_image):
        self.remove(previous_image)
        image = Gtk.Image.new_from_file("../images/second.png")
        self.add(image)
        self.show_all()

first = FirstScrn()
first.connect("delete-event", Gtk.main_quit)

Gtk.main()

Remember, time.sleep will make Gtk unresponsive. And threads don't work either. That is why you use things like timeout_add and idle_add.

pygtk+: How to display a second image 3 seconds after the first?

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