On Wednesday 22 November 2006 12:37 pm, anders wrote: > I am writing a plugin for a piece of software in python, and I want to > start up a PyQt GUI in the plugin, without stalling the main thread > while the gui is running (later i will want to pass messages between > the main thread and the gui thread). > > I'm new to pyqt, so I'm probably doing something very silly, but for > the moment I'm just trying to get the first pyqt tutorial example > running in a seperate thread: > > ----8<-------- > > import sys > from PyQt4 import QtGui > from PyQt4 import QtCore > > class MyThread( QtCore.QThread ): > def __init__( self ): > QtCore.QThread.__init__( self ) > > def run( self ): > app = QtGui.QApplication( sys.argv ) > hello = QtGui.QPushButton( 'Hello world!' ) > hello.resize( 500, 500 ) > hello.show() > app.exec_() > QtCore.QThread.terminate( ) > > > > mt = MyThread() > mt.start() > print 'Main thread continuing...' > mt.wait() > print 'GUI thread finished.' > > ----8<-------- > > The app starts up (with a warning WARNING: QApplication was not created > in the main() thread. ). I get a window, but no button, and clicking on > the close button does nothing and I have to force the program to quit. > > There's got to be a way to get this working, right? Can anyone help me > along the right path?
Read http://doc.trolltech.com/4.2/threads.html In particular the bit that says that exec_() must be called from the main thread and not from a QThread. Phil -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
