most efficient way of populating a combobox (in maya)

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Thu, 03 May 2012 19:07:51 -0700, astan.chee Astan wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm making a GUI in maya using python only and I'm trying to see which
> is more efficient. I'm trying to populate an optionMenuGrp / combo box
> whose contents come from os.listdir(folder). Now this is fine if the
> folder isn't that full but the folder has a few hundred items (almost in
> the thousands), it is also on the (work) network and people are
> constantly reading from it as well. Now I'm trying to write the GUI so
> that it makes the interface, and using threading - Thread, populate the
> box. Is this a good idea? Has anyone done this before and have
> experience with any limitations on it? Is the performance not
> significant?
> Thanks for any advice


Why don't you try it and see?


It's not like populating a combobox in Tkinter with the contents of 
os.listdir requires a large amount of effort. Just try it and see whether 
it performs well enough.



-- 
Steven