[Twisted-Python] Twisted and wxPython on windows

[Uwe C. Schroeder]

On Tuesday 11 March 2003 06:27 am, Ivo van der Wijk wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm currently testing my python/twisted/wxWindows application under Win98
> (development is done under Linux).
>
> Has anyone tested this before?
>
> The application is rather unresponsive sometimes, even with the
> win32evenreactor installed.
>
> Does anyone know if things will perform better under win2k?
>
> I avoid touching Windows as much as possible, so I'm somewhat of a
> newbie in this area (windows development and python under windows).

The basic problem with wxPython and Twisted is the wxpython internal event 
loop. If you follow the demos and docs of Twisted (using wxsupport) your app 
will freeze whenever you open a menu or a modal dialogbox. This is due to the 
fact that wxWindows uses a different eventloop to handle this type of events. 
The wx main eventloop will suspend until the menu etc. closes. 
Using wxsupport this will also freeze the twisted eventloop.
Ergo - nothing works until you close whatever popped up.

I posted a recipe in the Python Cookbook (activestate.com) a while ago.
Basically I solved the problem by running the normal wx eventloop and using 
timers to run the twisted events. just check it out. It's only tested on 
linux but maybe it helps you.
 
 
	UC

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