Diez B. Roggisch wrote: >> I'm thinking it may be possible to modify the command line tools to use >> qt >> threads instead of native python threads. Is this the way to go? Are >> there other options? > > Why don't you use python threads in qt - I do so and so far it didn't make > any troubles for me. And I would strongly advise against using qthreads > with your commandline-tools, as these then would only run on machines > where pyqt is installed - which opens a small part of "dependency hell" > for your users. > I have a QThread which polls a queue object via queue.get(). The command line tools spawn a number of threads each of which writes its output to this queue using queue.put(). As soon as the gui gets something off the queue, it creates a QCustomEvent and sets the data property with the data read from the queue. My application has a customEvent() method which reads the data item from the customEvent and processes it accordingly.
The odd thing is, I have a non-threaded version of the command line tools which work 100% with the gui. The multi-threaded version of the command line tools all work OK at the console - just not with the gui. I will try your suggestion and replace my QCustomEvent mechanism with a plain python queue. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list