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[ReTrY]

I'm writing a program with Tkinter GUI, When the program is running it
need to be updated every five seconds (data comes from internet). How
should I do that ? How to make a function in main loop ?

[Aahz]

In article <11**********************@i13g2000prf.googlegroups .com>,
ReTrY <re****@gmail.comwrote:

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I'm writing a program with Tkinter GUI, When the program is running it
need to be updated every five seconds (data comes from internet). How
should I do that ? How to make a function in main loop ?

See the Tkinter example from my threads tutorial on my website.
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[Hendrik van Rooyen]

"ReTrY" <re****@gmail.comwrote:

I'm writing a program with Tkinter GUI, When the program is running it
need to be updated every five seconds (data comes from internet). How
should I do that ? How to make a function in main loop ?

Short answer:

use the after method to set up a periodic scan of a queue.

In another thread, look for the new stuff, and put it on the queue when found.

there is a recipe for this sort of thing, but I keep losing links.

- Hendrik

[kyosohma]

On Jul 18, 3:24 am, ReTrY <[e-mail]:

I'm writing a program with Tkinter GUI, When the program is running it
need to be updated every five seconds (data comes from internet). How
should I do that ? How to make a function in main loop ?

I'm pretty sure the book "Programming Python 3rd Ed." by Lutz covers
this stuff in detail. I think it mentions using threads for this sort
of thing. The wxPython wiki has a good example that I think you could
adapt for Tkinter. Just use the threading code and wrap it in your
Tkinter code and I think you'll be good to go. Here's the link:
http://www.wxpython.org/maillist.php

Good luck,

Mike

[kyosohma]

On Jul 18, 4:43 pm, [e-mail] (Aahz) wrote:

In article <[e-mail] .com>,

ReTrY <[e-mail]:

I'm writing a program with Tkinter GUI, When the program is running it
need to be updated every five seconds (data comes from internet). How
should I do that ? How to make a function in main loop ?

See the Tkinter example from my threads tutorial on my website.
--
Aahz ([e-mail]) <* http://www.pythoncraft.com/

I support the RKAB

There's also a good example on the wxPython wiki dealing with threads
that you should be able to adapt to Tkinter.

http://wiki.wxpython.org/LongRunningTasks

Mike

[Alex Martelli]

Hendrik van Rooyen <ma**@microcorp.co.zawrote:

"ReTrY" <re****@gmail.comwrote:

I'm writing a program with Tkinter GUI, When the program is running it
need to be updated every five seconds (data comes from internet). How
should I do that ? How to make a function in main loop ?

Short answer:

use the after method to set up a periodic scan of a queue.

In another thread, look for the new stuff, and put it on the queue when found.

there is a recipe for this sort of thing, but I keep losing links.

<http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/82965.
Alex

[Hendrik van Rooyen]

"Alex Martelli" <al***@mac.comwrote:

Hendrik van Rooyen <ma**@microcorp.co.zawrote:

there is a recipe for this sort of thing, but I keep losing links.

<http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/82965.

thanks - but its probably no use - I predict I will lose this too...

: - )

- Hendrik