On Thu, 03 May 2012 19:07:51 -0700, astan.chee Astan wrote: > Hi, > I'm making a GUI in maya using python only and I'm trying to see which > is more efficient. I'm trying to populate an optionMenuGrp / combo box > whose contents come from os.listdir(folder). Now this is fine if the > folder isn't that full but the folder has a few hundred items (almost in > the thousands), it is also on the (work) network and people are > constantly reading from it as well. Now I'm trying to write the GUI so > that it makes the interface, and using threading - Thread, populate the > box. Is this a good idea? Has anyone done this before and have > experience with any limitations on it? Is the performance not > significant? > Thanks for any advice
Why don't you try it and see? It's not like populating a combobox in Tkinter with the contents of os.listdir requires a large amount of effort. Just try it and see whether it performs well enough. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list