On Dec 30, 3:07 pm, Dmitry Teslenko <dtesle...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 16:18, aspineux <aspin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Dec 30, 1:34 pm, Dmitry Teslenko <dtesle...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello! > >> I'm making gui gtk application. I'm using pypcap > >> (http://code.google.com/p/pypcap/) to sniff some network packets. > >> To avoid gui freezing I put pcap call to another thread. > >> Pypcap call looks like: > > >> pc = pcap.pcap() > >> pc.setfilter('tcp') > >> for ts, pkt in pc: > >> spkt = str(pkt) > >> ... > > >> Sadly, but this call in another thread blocks gtk gui thread anyway. > >> If I substitute pcap call with something else separate thread don't block > >> gui thread. > > >> Using another process instead of thead isn't appropriate. > > >> Thread initialization looks like and takes place before gtk.main(): > > >> self.__pcap_thread = threading.Thread(target = self.get_city_from_pcap) > >> self.__pcap_thread.start() > > > Did you try using build-in gtk thread ? > > > Regards > > > Alain Spineux | aspineux gmail com > > Your email 100% available | http://www.emailgency.com > > NTBackup frontend sending mail report | http://www.magikmon.com/mkbackup > > >> -- > >> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > >> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > >> A: Top-posting. > >> Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? > > -- > >http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > > No. What makes it different?
It allow you to access to you GTK widgets from your threads (you have rules to follow to do that). What are you doing from inside your "pcap" thread ? > > -- > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > A: Top-posting. > Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
