[PyKDE] Starting QApplication from a python thread

[Torsten Marek]

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Phil Thompson schrieb:
| On Saturday 05 February 2005 10:16 pm, Jeremy Sanders wrote:
|
|>On a related not to my last posting, why doesn't the following code work?
|>
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|>#!/usr/bin/env python
|>
|>import thread
|>import sys
|>import time
|>
|>def threadfn():
|>     import qt
|>     app = qt.QApplication([sys.argv[0]])
|>     win = qt.QMainWindow()
|>     win.setCaption('foo bar')
|>     win.show()
|>     app.exec_loop()
|>
|>t = thread.start_new_thread(threadfn, ())
|>
|>i = 0
|>while 1:
|>     print i
|>     time.sleep(1)
|>     i += 1
|>
|>----
|>
|>After carefully reading the PyQt docs, it suggests that as long as I keep
|>all pyqt references to a single thread, things should work.
|>
|>However the window never appears here, and the infinite loops stops
|>counting.
|>
|>Am I missing something obvious.
|>
|>This is with PyQt-3.13 and python-2.3.4
|
|
| It might work with Python 2.4 (or 2.3.5). Earlier versions of Python have
| threading bugs.
|
Now I don't wonder anymore why it works for me.

greetings

Torsten

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