GUI frontend IPC question

[Cameron Laird]

In article <Pine.LNX.4.31.0109172132290.1656-100000 at cb921.local>,
Campbell  <cb921 at voice.co.za> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Again, because I'm working in Python, my own design issues become
>on-topic. :)
>
>I have an app servicing up to 120 'clients' at one time.  I would like
>to make a gui which will display current status of each of the ports
>(idle, active), and some other information.
>
>I originally made this gui a part of the server .py file, but wxPython
>takes a chunk of time out of my 'wait for event' loop (while it
>processes windows events), which then cannot respond to incoming events
>fast enough.  Creating the GUI as another application is easy, but how
>will the front end know what the state of the actual application is?
>
>So it all boils down to 'what does IPC look like and what options do I
>have', I guess.  Every program I have written before now, had both the
>display and the inner core, both in one process, so this is very new to
>me.
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Tcl people started such a list at <URL: http://mini.net/tcl/IPC >.
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