[python-win32] Pythonwin responsiveness

Blair Hall b.hall at irl.cri.nz
Fri Jun 20 18:14:16 EDT 2003


At 22:59 19/06/2003 -0600, Bob Gailer wrote:
>At 04:50 PM 6/20/2003 +1200, Blair Hall wrote:
>
>>I was wondering if there is anything I could do
>>to keep Pythonwin reponsive to
>>user interaction while executing some code?
>>(running on Windows XP)
>>
>>It seems that as soon as I have started to execute
>>a script, that's it: Pythonwin just can't respond to any more
>>user more interaction until the script returns.
>>
>>If I switch to another open application
>>(say Excel, when the script is writing to a spreadsheet)
>>then I cannot get back to Pythonwin, it
>>does not seem to refresh the screen until the
>>script has completed.
>>
>>Perhaps there is something simple I can do?
>
>Threading?

Well, how?
A script with multiple threads still ties up Pythonwin.
Can you be a bit more explicit?




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