[SciPy-dev] gui_thread and chaco under Linux

[Pearu Peterson]

Hi,

Ok, now I have made some progress with calling chaco from Python prompt 
under Linux. What follows is work-in-progress but shows that the idea
works:

from parallel_exec import ParallelExec 
# the code of parallel_exec is given below
pexec = ParallelExec()
pexec("""\
import wxPython.wx
from chaco.wxplt import *
class MyApp(wxPython.wx.wxApp):
    def OnInit(self):
        return True
def show(): MyApp().MainLoop()
""")

plot([1,2,4]);pexec('show()')   # shows a graph of [1,2,4]
# you can enter Python commands from the prompt
plot([1,2,5,4]);pexec('show()') # replaces previous graph with [1,2,5,4]

Note that show() must be called using pexec (that executes command in 
the so-called parallel thread) otherwise Python prompt hangs until
a plot window is closed.

A way how to open multiple plot windows must be figured out. Ideas are 
welcome.

Pearu

#-------------- parallel_exec.py -----------
# Author: Pearu Peteson <pearu at cens.ioc.ee>
# Created: Oct 6, 2003

import sys
import threading
import Queue
import traceback

class ParallelExec(threading.Thread):
    """ Create a thread of parallel execution.
    """
    def __init__(self,frame_level=0):
        self.__queue = Queue.Queue(0)
        self.__frame = sys._getframe(frame_level+1)
        threading.Thread.__init__(self)
        self.setDaemon(1)
        self.start()

    def __call__(self,code):
        self.__queue.put(code)

    def shutdown(self):
        self.__queue.put(None)

    def run(self):
        while 1:
            code = self.__queue.get()
            if code is None:
                break
            frame = self.__frame
            try:
                exec (code, frame.f_globals,frame.f_locals)
            except Exception:
                traceback.print_exc()
#------------- EOF parallel_exec.py -----------