""" This demonstrates a simple use of delayedresult: get/compute something that takes a long time, without hanging the GUI while this is taking place. The top button runs a small GUI that uses wx.lib.delayedresult.startWorker to wrap a long-running function into a separate thread. Just click Get, and move the slider, and click Get and Abort a few times, and observe that GUI responds. The key functions to look for in the code are startWorker() and __handleResult(). The second button runs the same GUI, but without delayedresult. Click Get: now the get/compute is taking place in main thread, so the GUI does not respond to user actions until worker function returns, it's not even possible to Abort. """ import wx import wx.lib.delayedresult as delayedresult class FrameSimpleDelayedBase(wx.Frame): def __init__(self, *args, **kwds): wx.Frame.__init__(self, *args, **kwds) pnl = wx.Panel(self) self.checkboxUseDelayed = wx.CheckBox(pnl, -1, "Using delayedresult") self.buttonGet = wx.Button(pnl, -1, "Get") self.buttonAbort = wx.Button(pnl, -1, "Abort") self.slider = wx.Slider(pnl, -1, 0, 0, 10, size=(100,-1), style=wx.SL_HORIZONTAL|wx.SL_AUTOTICKS) self.textCtrlResult = wx.TextCtrl(pnl, -1, "", style=wx.TE_READONLY) self.checkboxUseDelayed.SetValue(1) self.checkboxUseDelayed.Enable(False) self.buttonAbort.Enable(False) vsizer = wx.BoxSizer(wx.VERTICAL) hsizer = wx.BoxSizer(wx.HORIZONTAL) vsizer.Add(self.checkboxUseDelayed, 0, wx.ALL, 10) hsizer.Add(self.buttonGet, 0, wx.ALL, 5) hsizer.Add(self.buttonAbort, 0, wx.ALL, 5) hsizer.Add(self.slider, 0, wx.ALL, 5) hsizer.Add(self.textCtrlResult, 0, wx.ALL, 5) vsizer.Add(hsizer, 0, wx.ALL, 5) pnl.SetSizer(vsizer) vsizer.SetSizeHints(self) self.Bind(wx.EVT_BUTTON, self.handleGet, self.buttonGet) self.Bind(wx.EVT_BUTTON, self.handleAbort, self.buttonAbort) class FrameSimpleDelayed(FrameSimpleDelayedBase): """This demos simplistic use of delayedresult module.""" def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): FrameSimpleDelayedBase.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs) self.jobID = 0 self.abortEvent = delayedresult.AbortEvent() self.Bind(wx.EVT_CLOSE, self.handleClose) def setLog(self, log): self.log = log def handleClose(self, event): """Only needed because in demo, closing the window does not kill the app, so worker thread continues and sends result to dead frame; normally your app would exit so this would not happen.""" if self.buttonAbort.IsEnabled(): self.log( "Exiting: Aborting job %s" % self.jobID ) self.abortEvent.set() self.Destroy() def handleGet(self, event): """Compute result in separate thread, doesn't affect GUI response.""" self.buttonGet.Enable(False) self.buttonAbort.Enable(True) self.abortEvent.clear() self.jobID += 1 self.log( "Starting job %s in producer thread: GUI remains responsive" % self.jobID ) delayedresult.startWorker(self._resultConsumer, self._resultProducer, wargs=(self.jobID,self.abortEvent), jobID=self.jobID) def _resultProducer(self, jobID, abortEvent): """Pretend to be a complex worker function or something that takes long time to run due to network access etc. GUI will freeze if this method is not called in separate thread.""" import time count = 0 while not abortEvent() and count < 50: time.sleep(0.1) count += 1 return jobID def handleAbort(self, event): """Abort the result computation.""" self.log( "Aborting result for job %s" % self.jobID ) self.buttonGet.Enable(True) self.buttonAbort.Enable(False) self.abortEvent.set() def _resultConsumer(self, delayedResult): jobID = delayedResult.getJobID() assert jobID == self.jobID try: result = delayedResult.get() except Exception, exc: self.log( "Result for job %s raised exception: %s" % (jobID, exc) ) return # output result self.log( "Got result for job %s: %s" % (jobID, result) ) self.textCtrlResult.SetValue(str(result)) # get ready for next job: self.buttonGet.Enable(True) self.buttonAbort.Enable(False) class FrameSimpleDirect(FrameSimpleDelayedBase): """This does not use delayedresult so the GUI will freeze while the GET is taking place.""" def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): self.jobID = 1 FrameSimpleDelayedBase.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs) self.checkboxUseDelayed.SetValue(False) def setLog(self, log): self.log = log def handleGet(self, event): """Use delayedresult, this will compute result in separate thread, and will affect GUI response because a thread is not used.""" self.buttonGet.Enable(False) self.buttonAbort.Enable(True) self.log( "Doing job %s without delayedresult (same as GUI thread): GUI hangs (for a while)" % self.jobID ) result = self._resultProducer(self.jobID) self._resultConsumer( result ) def _resultProducer(self, jobID): """Pretend to be a complex worker function or something that takes long time to run due to network access etc. GUI will freeze if this method is not called in separate thread.""" import time time.sleep(5) return jobID def handleAbort(self, event): """can never be called""" pass def _resultConsumer(self, result): # output result self.log( "Got result for job %s: %s" % (self.jobID, result) ) self.textCtrlResult.SetValue(str(result)) # get ready for next job: self.buttonGet.Enable(True) self.buttonAbort.Enable(False) self.jobID += 1 #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- class TestPanel(wx.Panel): def __init__(self, parent, log): self.log = log wx.Panel.__init__(self, parent, -1) vsizer = wx.BoxSizer(wx.VERTICAL) b = wx.Button(self, -1, "Long-running function in separate thread") vsizer.Add(b, 0, wx.ALL, 5) self.Bind(wx.EVT_BUTTON, self.OnButton1, b) b = wx.Button(self, -1, "Long-running function in GUI thread") vsizer.Add(b, 0, wx.ALL, 5) self.Bind(wx.EVT_BUTTON, self.OnButton2, b) bdr = wx.BoxSizer() bdr.Add(vsizer, 0, wx.ALL, 50) self.SetSizer(bdr) self.Layout() def OnButton1(self, evt): frame = FrameSimpleDelayed(self, title="Long-running function in separate thread") frame.setLog(self.log.WriteText) frame.Show() def OnButton2(self, evt): frame = FrameSimpleDirect(self, title="Long-running function in GUI thread") frame.setLog(self.log.WriteText) frame.Show() #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- def runTest(frame, nb, log): win = TestPanel(nb, log) return win #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- overview = __doc__ if __name__ == '__main__': import sys,os import run run.main(['', os.path.basename(sys.argv[0])] + sys.argv[1:])