Multithreaded GUI programming

[Aahz]

In article <3df0906e at nntp.server.uni-frankfurt.de>,
Michael 'Mickey' Lauer  <mickey at tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de> wrote:
>
>I have a question regarding efficient programming in a multithreaded
>environment. Our scenario deals with Qt, but the problem is a general
>one.
>
>Our setup is a typical multithreaded one: We have a number of worker
>threads and one GUI thread, both communicating via a Queue. The problem
>is: How not to waste CPU resources by using a timer to poll the
>communication Queue from within the GUI thread.

You need to poll.  ;-)  See the thread tutorial on my web page for an
example of doing this with TKinter; it's not *that* inefficient.
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