Threading with PyGTK and Glade

I find out just one pratical sample about how to use pygtk with thread at the http://pygtk.org/ faq. Although I think that coolest thing of pygtk is use with glade. With no samples available I’d tried to do by myself. I am glad because at the end it was pretty much the same stuff as the sample that wasn’t using glade! Good job done, folks!

  #!/usr/bin/env python
# gui.py, sample of PyGTK + GLADE + Threads use.
# Licence: GPLv2.0

try:
    import pygtk
    pygtk.require("2.0")
except:
    print "You need to install pyGTK or GTKv2 or set PYTHONPATH."
    sys.exit(1)

import sys
import gtk
import gtk.glade
import gobject
import threading
import time

class Engine:
    def __init__(self):
        self.init_app()

    def init_app(self):
        print "Engine Start!"
        time.sleep(2)
        print "Engine End!"
        return

gobject.threads_init()

class AppGui(threading.Thread):

    def __init__(self):
        super(AppGui, self).__init__()
        self.init_app()

    def init_app(self):
        self.gladefile = "gui.glade"
        self.wTree = gtk.glade.XML(self.gladefile)
        dic = { "on_button1_clicked"    : self.run,
                "on_MainWindow_destroy" : gtk.main_quit }
        self.wTree.signal_autoconnect(dic)

    def run_back(self, value):
        print value
        self.engine = Engine()

    def run(self, widget):
        value = "some value..."
        print "Before!"
        gobject.idle_add(self.run_back, value)
        ## Comment line above an try line bellow!
        # self.run_back(value)
        print "After!"

if __name__ == "__main__":
    app = AppGui()
    gtk.main()

Bellow we got the “gui.glade” file. It will be wrapped by “gui.py” above, so put it in the same directory before run.

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?> <!--*- mode: xml -*-->
<!DOCTYPE glade-interface SYSTEM "http://glade.gnome.org/glade-2.0.dtd">

<glade-interface>

<widget class="GtkWindow" id="window1">
<property name="visible">True</property>
<property name="title" translatable="yes">window1</property>
<property name="type">GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL</property>
<property name="window_position">GTK_WIN_POS_NONE</property>
<property name="modal">False</property>
<property name="resizable">True</property>
<property name="destroy_with_parent">False</property>
<property name="decorated">True</property>
<property name="skip_taskbar_hint">False</property>
<property name="skip_pager_hint">False</property>
<property name="type_hint">GDK_WINDOW_TYPE_HINT_NORMAL</property>
<property name="gravity">GDK_GRAVITY_NORTH_WEST</property>
<property name="focus_on_map">True</property>
<property name="urgency_hint">False</property>

<child>
<widget class="GtkVBox" id="vbox1">
<property name="visible">True</property>
<property name="homogeneous">False</property>
<property name="spacing">0</property>

<child>
<widget class="GtkButton" id="button1">
<property name="visible">True</property>
<property name="can_focus">True</property>
<property name="label" translatable="yes">   Start
</property>
<property name="use_underline">True</property>
<property name="relief">GTK_RELIEF_NORMAL</property>
<property name="focus_on_click">True</property>
<signal name="clicked" handler="on_button1_clicked"
last_modification_time="Wed, 07 Mar 2007 18:35:44 GMT"/>
</widget>
<packing>
<property name="padding">0</property>
<property name="expand">False</property>
<property name="fill">False</property>
</packing>
</child>
</widget>
</child>
</widget>

</glade-interface>

And It works, see by yourself. Although I’m still looking for others threading samples to user interfaces. Any sugestion?

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