Re: Hacking a Win32 UI without knowing jack

I don't think I've ever read the wxpython code.  I know the tkui code has
its own thread to handle ui events (mouse clicks, keyboard stuff, ...) and
has a timeout callback which we have pulling from its own event queue.
The Lyntin core dumps messages to the tkui event queue and the timeout
callback reads and processes them.  It's pretty icky, but I couldn't find
a better way to do it that allowed for other ui's.

I think that's what I did--this was all a couple of years ago.

I'll try to find some time to either do a tutorial on building new user
interfaces or making the baseui.py documentation more comprehensive in
terms of what you need to do to implement a new user interface.  I
probably won't get to this for a while, though.

/will


On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 [email protected] wrote:
>
> Quoting [email protected] :
>
> > I wrote a GUI into a compiled Python module (pyd).
> > I show and operate that GUI from kaiui.py a Lyntin ui wrapper.
> >
> > I can currently write to the UI, but I have a dilemma.
>
> Ok. I can see I probably do want wantMainThread to return 1.
> Now I just need to figure what my equivalent of _wx.MainLoop() is.
>
> I figured I just process Win32 messages here indefinitely,
> but that's not quite it apparently.
>
>

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