wxPython fast and slow

[Carl Banks]

On Mar 8, 1:52 am, iu2 <isra... at elbit.co.il> wrote:
> On Mar 6, 6:52 pm, Mike Driscoll <kyoso... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > ...
> > Can you post a sample application so we can try to figure out what's
> > wrong? You might also cross-post this to thewxPythonmailing list.
> > They might know.
>
> > Mike- Hide quoted text -
>
> > - Show quoted text -
>
> Hi, thanks for your reply
>
> Here is a sample application:
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
> import wx
> import time
>
> class My_frame(wx.Frame):
>     def __init__(self):
>         wx.Frame.__init__(self, None, -1, 'Moving panel')
>         self.surface = p = wx.Panel(self, size=(300, 130))
>         self.square = wx.Panel(p, -1, size=(100, 100), pos=(0, 30))
>         self.square.Bind(wx.EVT_PAINT, self.on_paint_square)
>
>         btn_move = wx.Button(p, -1, 'Move panel', pos=(0, 0))
>         self.Bind(wx.EVT_BUTTON, self.move_panel, btn_move)
>
>         self.Fit()
>
>     def move_panel(self, evt):
>         def gen():
>             for x in range(200):
>                 yield x
>             for x in range(200, 0, -1):
>                 yield x
>         for x in gen():
>             self.square.SetPosition((x, 30))
>             time.sleep(0.005)
>
>     def on_paint_square(self, evt):
>         square = evt.GetEventObject()
>         dc = wx.BufferedPaintDC(square)
>         dc.Pen = wx.Pen('blakc', 2)
>         dc.Brush = wx.Brush('light blue')
>         dc.DrawRectangle(0, 0, *square.GetSize())
>
> app = wx.PySimpleApp()
> My_frame().Show()
> app.MainLoop()
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
> Press the button and the panel moves to the right and then back to the
> left.
> While PyScripter is running the panel moves at a certain speed. You
> can run the application from the Windows explorer with the same speed.
> You don't need to run it from PyScripter.
> When PyScripter is closed, the application runs much less quickly.
> I experienced this on two PC-s.
> Maybe this behavior is not even related to wxPython but to the sleep
> command. I don't know...

It's not a good idea to call time.sleep inside a loop inside an event
handler, which is what you are doing here.

wx has a mechanism to call some sort of callback at timed intervals.
(I don't know what it is but I know it has one.)  Instead of animating
the box move inside the button callback, have it request that a
callback be called after x seconds pass, and draw a single frame
inside that callback.  Then invoke it again until you're done drawing.

Here's a rough idea of what that might look like:



class My_frame(wx.Frame):

    # ... among other things ...

    def move_panel(self,evt):
        self.square_pos = 0
        wx.set_timed_callback_of_some_sort(
            self.draw_frame,0.005)

    def draw_frame(self):
        self.square.SetPosition((self.square_pos, 30))
        self.square_pos += 1
        if self.square_pos < 200:
            wx.set_timed_callback_of_some_sort(
               self.draw_frame,0.005)


As for why it works fine in PyScripter but not when started from
Explorer, well, let's just say that when you abuse callbacks like you
did, you shouldn't expect reasonable behavior.


Carl Banks