[Paraview] Threads in the python shell

[Felipe Bordeu]

Pat,

I tested the code and work as expected.
Thanks.

Felipe

On 11/01/2012 21:05, Pat Marion wrote:
> Dave's right, you can't use python threads in the paraview python 
> shell.  After your while loop exits, control is returned to the Qt 
> event loop and the python thread has no chance to cycle.  It might 
> work if you try pvpython instead.
>
> You could also try a plugin I wrote last year...  you have to compile 
> it, but then you can do everything from python, no additional 
> recompiling.  It adds UI for creating remote control sockets in the 
> paraview gui, and all character data received on the socket is 
> executed directly in the python shell.  I just put it up on github:
>
> https://github.com/patmarion/ParaViewSocketPlugin
>
> Pat
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:50 PM, David E DeMarle 
> <dave.demarle at kitware.com <mailto:dave.demarle at kitware.com>> wrote:
>
>     No pythreads in paraview for you!
>
>     Sorry. See "gitk 106fd270" for some of the history behind that.
>
>     I am guessing it would take a significant amount of work to make
>     it all work right. Hopefully others on the list will correct me.
>
>     David E DeMarle
>     Kitware, Inc.
>     R&D Engineer
>     21 Corporate Drive
>     Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
>     Phone: 518-881-4909 <tel:518-881-4909>
>
>
>     On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Felipe Bordeu
>     <felipe.bordeu at ec-nantes.fr <mailto:felipe.bordeu at ec-nantes.fr>>
>     wrote:
>
>         Hello,
>
>         I want to use a tablet (android) to control the  GUI
>         (rotation, pan, zoom) in paraview.
>         In the python shell a made network connection (socket) the
>         sent command that I translate into paraview commands (this
>         work ok).
>
>         The problem is that the GUI is not respond to the user
>         iterations during the network iteration (I have a while loop
>         in the python):
>
>         so the idea was to create a thread to treat all the network
>         commands, but the code in the second thread is executed only
>         for the time the main thread is running.
>         a example code is attached (very little code).
>
>         can I use threads inside paraview python shell, or I have to
>         use c++??? (I prefer python, no need to recompile)
>
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