Re: [pygame] Wii Remote support -- first patch

[Alex Holkner <aholkner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Luke Paireepinart wrote:

> Also, I'm using overlapped I/O for the reads/writes, but right after I 
> call the read and it returns control to me,
> I call the kernel32.GetOverlappedResult to get the result, which is 
> blocking.
> So  my question was:  Is it cool to run the wii remote's update method 
> in a thread, or should I recode it to where it doesn't
> block and just returns nothing if it doesn't get a read within a few 
> milliseconds or something?


Polling (with optional timeout) is the PyGame/SDL way; any blocking or 
threaded API can then be layered on top if the application desires it.

Alex.