tkinter redraw rates

[David Hutto]

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 9:32 PM, David Hutto <dwightdhutto at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've had a similar problem with a tkinter/3D app. right now I'm looking
> toward Blender, and the Python API, but there is also wxpython, and the
> usual python's library gtk.
>
> There is also matplotlib with the ion window. but, I, personally, am going
> to go with Blender, and Python API, with maybe a few other imports, and if
> ctypes...includes if I remember C correctly without reference at this time
> the usages of returned data type values
> for you to utilize.
>
>
> But for the plainer answer I'd go with wxpython if you decide not to use a
> different library, and for a GDK, Blend
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 8:57 PM, <fronagzen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hm. So I've written a GUI in tkinter. I've found two performance issues,
>> I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction.
>>
>> Firstly, I'm using an image as a border, namely:
>>
>> from tkinter import *
>> from tkinter import ttk
>>
>> root_frame = Tk()
>> root_frame.configure(background = 'black')
>>
>> img1 = PhotoImage("frameBorder", data="""
>>        R0lGODlhQABAAMIHAAAAABkfLTMrMzMrZjNVZjNVmUFch////ywAAAAAQABAAAAD9A
>>        i63P4wykmrvTjrzbu/hlGMZGmeaBp2QmgIQSzPdG3fbShk+u3/wFkONAgaj7aBoWIo
>>        Ip9P5aQFrSJfkpd1C2xluWDfEhIKm2mrh/bM9qrZ8MDYYYiz54263Yxn6PdgfQt/gF
>>        uCCoSFVYcAiYpPjI6PR5GTVpWWUJiZV2SckJ6flKGiQZulP6eoN6qrNa2uM7CxMbO0
>>        trG4rrqrvKi+pcCiwp/EnMaZyJbKk8yPzorQhdKA1HuRMLQ0bnSSuYyN2mhZ2eLcD1
>>
>>  TicjtZ3sPgfu7J8A0EBOWfQxg5a4/87BtcCBxIsKDBgh8SKlzIsKHDhxAVJgAAOw==""")
>>
>> style = ttk.Style()
>> style.element_create("RoundedFrame", "image", "frameBorder",
>>                                   border=30, sticky="nsew")
>> style.layout("RoundedFrame", [("RoundedFrame", {"sticky": "nsew"})])
>>
>> input_frame = ttk.Frame(root_frame,
>>                         style = "RoundedFrame",
>>                         padding = 15,
>>                         width = 640,
>>                         height = 180
>>                         )
>> input_frame.pack(padx=10, pady=10)
>>
>> This works, yes, but is annoyingly laggy on an older computer when I try
>> to move the window around. I figure it's because the program has to keep
>> redrawing the image border when dragged around, and is exacerbated by the
>> fact that I have two of the imageborder frames in my application. How can I
>> remedy this? I've tried using a hard-drawn image on a Canvas instead of the
>> image border, but it's suboptimal because that prevents resizing the window.
>>
>>
>> The other performance issue I've found is that when the logic is running,
>> the app doesn't redraw. Ordinarily this would be acceptable, but as part of
>> my program, it loads data from a website, and during the load, the window
>> completely freezes up and doesn't respond until the download is done; as I
>> understand it, tkinter doesn't redraw until it is forced to by .update() or
>> control is given back to the mainloop. How can I force a more frequent
>> redraw rate?
>> --
>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>>
>
>
> I've had a similar problem with a tkinter/3D app. right now I'm looking
> toward Blender, and the Python API, but there is also wxpython, and the
> usual python's library gtk.
>
> There is also matplotlib with the ion window. but, I, personally, am going
> to go with Blender, and Python API, with maybe a few other imports, and if
> ctypes...includes if I remember C correctly without reference at this time
> the usages of returned data type values
> for you to utilize.
>
>
> But for the plainer answer I'd go with wxpython if you decide not to use a
> different library, and for a GDK, Blender.
>



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Best Regards,
David Hutto
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