GUI freezes when executing def function. Use threads?

Hi,
I've made a small program which has 2 buttons and each does certain thing. Here's a simplified version of the code.

Thing is it works fine except that the button freezes and stays in a clicked position and whole GUI freezes until the command is completed.
As far as I know threads would be best to use in this situation, but I have no idea how to implement it in this example.

I use glade and pygtk for gui.

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def do1:

        t = 2

        #do something

        time.sleep(t)

        #do something

        time.sleep(t)

def do2:

        t = 3

        #do something

        time.sleep(t)

        #do something

        time.sleep(t)
 
class we:

        wTree = None

        def __init__( self ):                

                self.wTree = gtk.glade.XML( "ui.glade" )
 
                dic = {

                        "on_buttonSone" : self.sone,

                        "on_buttonStwo" : self.stwo,

                }

                self.wTree.signal_autoconnect( dic )              

                gtk.main()
 
        def sone(self, widget):

                i = 0

                while i < 3:

                        t = 1

                        #do something

                        i += 1

                        time.sleep(t)           

                self.wTree.get_widget("entryResult").set_text("Done.")

        def stwo(self, widget):

                start = time.clock()

                array = ['A','B']

                adict = {'A':do1,'B':do2}

                for f in array:

                        adict[f]()

                end = time.clock()

                elapsed = end - start

                gg = round(elapsed,2)             

                self.wTree.get_widget("entryResult").set_text(str(gg))             
 
go=we()

Apr 9 '10 #1

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