[PyQt] wx.MilliSleep equivalent

[Kyle Altendorf]

Alrighty, I just had a (very rude) discussion in #wxpython.  
wx.MilliSleep is not non-blocking.  So, time.sleep() would be it's 
equivalent.  If you want non-blocking then we should find another 
solution for you.

https://wxpython.org/Phoenix/docs/html/wx.functions.html#wx.MilliSleep

Cheers,
-kyle


On 2018-10-03 05:44, Chris Pezley wrote:
> I misread the description of the wait argument in processEvents. It
> looks like it will return earlier if it can. You'll have to define
> your own blocking processEvents:
> 
> 
> import time
> 
> from PyQt5 import QtWidgets
> 
> 
> def processWait(time_to_block):
>     """
>     :param time_to_block: The time to block in seconds.
>     :type time_to_block:  float
>     """
>     start_time = time.time()
> 
>     # Keep processing events until we've exceeded the specified time.
>     while time.time() - start_time < time_to_block:
>         QtWidgets.qApp.processEvents()
> 
> 
> 
> On 10/01/2018 11:02 PM, Tong Zhang wrote:
>> Hello Chris,
>> 
>> Thanks, I've tried like this:
>> 
>> from PyQt5.QtCore import QCoreApplication
>> from PyQt5.QtCore import QEventLoop
>> 
>> QCoreApplication.processEvents(QEventLoop.WaitForMoreEvents, msec)
>> 
>> but had no luck, it does not behavior the same as qWait(msec). Did I 
>> use this method correctly?
>> 
>> Tong
>> 
>> On 09/22/2018 02:02 AM, Chris Pezley wrote:
>>> Hi Tong,
>>> 
>>> maybe what you want is "QtWidgets.qApp.processEvents()"? (make sure 
>>> to look at the one with the optional argument for maxtime)
>>> http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qcoreapplication.html#processEvents-1
>>> 
>>> On 21/09/2018 20.22, Tong Zhang wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> 
>>>> When I'm building applications by wxPython, there is a function 
>>>> wx.MilliSleep could be used to do non-GUI-block sleep, while I 
>>>> cannot find the similar thing in PyQt, is it available or not? 
>>>> Otherwise, what I can do to is to use QThread. Any comment is 
>>>> appreciated!
>>>> 
>>>> Tong
>>>> 
>>>> 
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