At 5:31 PM -0700 7/31/06, Mr Jason Cupp wrote:
>I don't know if I'm doing this mailing list right, but anyway:
>I tried making a method that either makes a button insensitive or
>sensitive according to the data that I pass it using
>self.button.set_sensitive(True) or self.button.set_sensitive(False). This
>is what was suggested. For some reason it didn't work. The program is
>supposed to make the buttons insensitive, then play the audio file using
>pymedia, and time.sleep() until audio is finished playing, then it makes
>the buttons sensitive again. But it never makes it insensitive during
>this time. So I connected 2 other buttons one that makes sensitive, and
>another that makes insensitive, just to see whether the method works or
>not. It does work when I click the buttons, but it does not work when the
>program automatically tries to turn them off, play audio, then turn them
>back on. So the method in itself works. Also in the method I put a
>print 'sensitive' and print 'insensitive' to see if the program is
>calling the method when it is supposed to, and it is. Any more
>suggestions on why this would happen?
Yes. In order to make GTK seem faster, all the work was moved to idle
time. You will need to idle a bit before starting the sound. What I do is:
def gtkeat():
while gtk.events_pending():
gtk.main_iteration(False)
Call gtkeat() after changing the sensitivity, and before starting the sound.
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