My application consists of Tkinter GUI that has to communicate with a
remote
server. The communication is bi-directional: the GUI responds to remote
requests and user actions uch as pressing a button) should send messages
to the server. I want to have the network interface implemented as a
separate
thread, as it may take a while to proccess incoming messages. My initial
approach is the following
------ Queue --------------------
| | <------ | asyncore | socket
| GUI | ? |dispatcher_with_send| <------------------> server
| | ------> | |
------ --------------------
My question is how to communicate with asyncore (to send a message, or
end the thread)? I started with creating an additional dispatcher class
using unix domain socket, but is seems wrong, why use sockets within the
same process? I might try file_dispatcher around a pipe, but maybe I
should use different design altogether.
George
5  3813  ge***********@noaa.gov wrote:
My application consists of Tkinter GUI that has to communicate with a
remote
server. The communication is bi-directional: the GUI responds to remote
requests and user actions uch as pressing a button) should send messages
to the server. I want to have the network interface implemented as a
separate
thread, as it may take a while to proccess incoming messages. My initial
approach is the following
------ Queue --------------------
| | <------ | asyncore | socket
| GUI | ? |dispatcher_with_send| <------------------> server
| | ------> | |
------ --------------------
My question is how to communicate with asyncore (to send a message, or
end the thread)? I started with creating an additional dispatcher class
using unix domain socket, but is seems wrong, why use sockets within the
same process? I might try file_dispatcher around a pipe, but maybe I
should use different design altogether.
I don't know what, if anything, asyncore has for that, but it's
"competition" Twisted has something called callFromThread(). This
method arranges for the specified callable to be called from within
the asynchronous loop at the next opportunity, allowing a separate
thread to communicate back to the objects in the async thread.
Maybe asyncore has something similar? (Checking the docs for it,
I can't see anything that would help.)
-Peter
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 07:11:58PM +0000, ge***********@noaa.gov wrote: My application consists of Tkinter GUI that has to communicate with a
remote
server. The communication is bi-directional: the GUI responds to remote
requests and user actions uch as pressing a button) should send messages
to the server. I want to have the network interface implemented as a
separate
thread, as it may take a while to proccess incoming messages. My initial
approach is the following
------ Queue --------------------
| | <------ | asyncore | socket
| GUI | ? |dispatcher_with_send| <------------------> server
| | ------> | |
------ --------------------
My question is how to communicate with asyncore (to send a message, or
end the thread)? I started with creating an additional dispatcher class
using unix domain socket, but is seems wrong, why use sockets within the
same process? I might try file_dispatcher around a pipe, but maybe I
should use different design altogether.
You need something selectable to wake asyncore up from its call to
select(). The easiest way to do this is with a pipe. You don't have to
send any actual message over the pipe, though; one byte will be enough to
get asyncore to call back into your code, then you can retrieve the message
from wherever it is (eg, in a Queue.Queue).
Jp ge***********@noaa.gov wrote: My application consists of Tkinter GUI that has to communicate with a
remote
server. The communication is bi-directional: the GUI responds to remote
requests and user actions uch as pressing a button) should send messages
to the server. I want to have the network interface implemented as a
separate
thread, as it may take a while to proccess incoming messages. My initial
approach is the following
------ Queue --------------------
| | <------ | asyncore | socket
| GUI | ? |dispatcher_with_send| <------------------> server
| | ------> | |
------ --------------------
My question is how to communicate with asyncore (to send a message, or
end the thread)? I started with creating an additional dispatcher class
using unix domain socket, but is seems wrong, why use sockets within the
same process? I might try file_dispatcher around a pipe, but maybe I
should use different design altogether.
George
#to control asyncore
while 1:
asyncore.loop(.1)
if not fromgui.empty():
#handle messages from GUI
Another option is to just have one thread, with the mainloop of Tkinter
do a single asyncore.loop(0) call every .01 seconds or so. In wxPython
I'd just use a wxTimer, I don't know if Tkinter has an equivalent.
- Josiah
> #to control asyncore while 1:
asyncore.loop(.1)
if not fromgui.empty():
#handle messages from GUI
Another option is to just have one thread, with the mainloop of Tkinter
do a single asyncore.loop(0) call every .01 seconds or so. In wxPython
I'd just use a wxTimer, I don't know if Tkinter has an equivalent.
I meant asyncore.poll(.1) and asyncore.poll(0) respectively.
- Josiah
Josiah Carlson wrote: ge***********@noaa.gov wrote:
My application consists of Tkinter GUI that has to communicate with a
remote
server. The communication is bi-directional: the GUI responds to remote
requests and user actions uch as pressing a button) should send messages
to the server. I want to have the network interface implemented as a
separate
thread, as it may take a while to proccess incoming messages. My initial
approach is the following
------ Queue --------------------
| | <------ | asyncore | socket
| GUI | ? |dispatcher_with_send| <------------------> server
| | ------> | |
------ --------------------
My question is how to communicate with asyncore (to send a message, or
end the thread)? I started with creating an additional dispatcher class
using unix domain socket, but is seems wrong, why use sockets within the
same process? I might try file_dispatcher around a pipe, but maybe I
should use different design altogether.
George
#to control asyncore
while 1:
asyncore.loop(.1)
if not fromgui.empty():
#handle messages from GUI
Another option is to just have one thread, with the mainloop of Tkinter
do a single asyncore.loop(0) call every .01 seconds or so. In wxPython
I'd just use a wxTimer, I don't know if Tkinter has an equivalent.
Yep: use the after method to call a function from the Tkinter main loop after a
given delay. See http://www.pythonware.com/library/tk...-and-other.htm
HTH
--
- Eric Brunel <eric dot brunel at pragmadev dot com> -
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