Re: [pygame] Threads

[Toni Alatalo <antont@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Fred Burton wrote:
> I'm using threads... er.. I'm using a thread with pygame, and then a 
> thread for background loading of various things. (But only the original 
> thread talks to pygame and opengl)

i'm doing that too in networked systems - Pete did show me a while back 
how to do non-blocking downloading without threading using select, which 
even works on windows for socket connections (but not local files i think, 
unlike on posix), 
http://www.tol.oulu.fi/~antont/programming/singlethreaddownload.py

.. but still afaik urllib2.urlopen() can block if e.g. the connection is
laggy or something, so can't have that regularly in the same thread that 
is moving graphics / playing video / .. so am still using threads. would 
like to get rid of that tho, perhaps to have the networking in a separate 
process, but controlling processes did not seem to be that well supported 
on windows (forking, killing etc) when last looked at it (am hopefully 
wrong)

~Toni