PyGTK custom timing

Question

I need to have a custom timing for a component of my program (essentially i'm counting turns, at the rate of around 20 turns per second). Each turn i need to process some information.

However, I have to do this so that it could work with PyGTK. Any ideas on how to accomplish this?

Johannes Sasongko · Answer 1 · 2011-09-24T06:20:40.887

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The simplest solution is to use glib.timeout_add, which can periodically run code in the GLib main thread.

If your calculation is time-consuming and needs to be run in a different thread, you can use Python's threading.Timer instead. When you're ready to update the GUI, use glib.idle_add.

edited Sep 24 '11 at 06:20

answered Sep 24 '11 at 06:15

Johannes Sasongko

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I don't think it will be _that_ time consuming, but it might. – Pwnna Sep 24 '11 at 14:34

PyGTK custom timing

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