pygtk window.hide() imidetly

[xrado]

when i say window.hide(), window dont hide imidetly

i want to hide it for a few seconds, do something and then show it back
how can i do this?

i have this example:

import pygtk,time
pygtk.require('2.0')
import gtk
 
class HelloWorld:
    def click_hide(self, widget, data=None):
        print "hide"
        self.window.hide()
        time.sleep(4)
        print "show"
        self.window.show()
        time.sleep(4)
 
    def delete_event(self, widget, event, data=None):
        print "delete event occurred"
        return False
 
    def destroy(self, widget, data=None):
        print "destroy signal occurred"
        gtk.main_quit()
 
    def __init__(self):
        self.window = gtk.Window(gtk.WINDOW_TOPLEVEL)
        self.window.connect("delete_event", self.delete_event)
        self.window.connect("destroy", self.destroy)
        self.button = gtk.Button("hide")
        self.button.connect("clicked", self.click_hide, None)
        self.window.add(self.button)
        self.window.show_all()
 
    def main(self):
        gtk.main()
 
if __name__ == "__main__":
    hello = HelloWorld()
    hello.main()

[bartonc]

when i say window.hide(), window dont hide imidetly

i want to hide it for a few seconds, do something and then show it back
how can i do this?

i have this example:

import pygtk,time
pygtk.require('2.0')
import gtk
 
class HelloWorld:
    def click_hide(self, widget, data=None):
        print "hide"
        self.window.hide()
        time.sleep(4)
        print "show"
        self.window.show()
        time.sleep(4)
 
    def delete_event(self, widget, event, data=None):
        print "delete event occurred"
        return False
 
    def destroy(self, widget, data=None):
        print "destroy signal occurred"
        gtk.main_quit()
 
    def __init__(self):
        self.window = gtk.Window(gtk.WINDOW_TOPLEVEL)
        self.window.connect("delete_event", self.delete_event)
        self.window.connect("destroy", self.destroy)
        self.button = gtk.Button("hide")
        self.button.connect("clicked", self.click_hide, None)
        self.window.add(self.button)
        self.window.show_all()
 
    def main(self):
        gtk.main()
 
if __name__ == "__main__":
    hello = HelloWorld()
    hello.main()

I looks to me like you have not subclassed properly; In the other Gui Too Kits that I have used it's always something like this:

class HelloWorld(GTK.TopLevelWindow):
    # call the superclass __init__() IFF you override it
    # the superclass has all of the gui commands including main()

[xrado]

i dont think this is the problem...
i added the print lines to observe what is going on

it prints "hide" and waits for 4 sec, then prints "show" and waits for 4 sec
only after that window hides in shows again in less then sec

[bartonc]

i dont think this is the problem...
i added the print lines to observe what is going on

it prints "hide" and waits for 4 sec, then prints "show" and waits for 4 sec
only after that window hides in shows again in less then sec

Ok. That explains a lot. This sounds like gtk is running the interpeter that is getting the print command in a separte thread from the one running your GUI app. Look and see if gtk has a timer class that generates events. The thing is that once you have a gui app, the best practice is to use only gui events for timing puposes.

[xrado]

gtk.gdk.flush() ..do the trick :)

[bartonc]

gtk.gdk.flush() ..do the trick :)

Thanks for keeping us up to date. This will, no doubt, help someone else down the line.