Carl Karsten wrote:
> perhaps an smooth scrolling feature 
> would be nice:  SmoothCenter(x,y,rate) or something would pan/zoom from the 
> current view to a new view, but smoothly, and as a process that doesn't 
> disrupt 
> the event loop

Thanks for the input -- I look forward to hearing more.

> (so like a thread.  maybe even a thread.  if you think you need a 
> real thread, look at stackles. )

Well, threads are an issue with wxPython -- you need to do all GUI calls 
in the same thread, and drawing to the screen is certainly a GUI call.

However, you can do animation of sorts by putting a call into 
wx.GetApp().Yield() in between frames -- I think that's done in the 
Animation sample.

-Chris


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